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HOMER AND HIS ILIAD - ROBIN LANE FOX GEBUNDEN

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic
poems  by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set
among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful
consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. It was composed more than 2 600 years ago  but
still transfixes us with its tale of loss and battle  love and revenge  guided throughout by
the active presence of the gods. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving but
great questions remain: where  how and when it was composed and why it has such enduring power?
In this compelling book Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions  drawing on a life-long love
and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place  a date and a method for its composition 
giving us a sense of alternative approaches and grounding his own in discoveries about long
heroic poems composed elsewhere in the world  and the ever-growing evidence of archaeology.
Unlike other books on the Iliad  this one combines the detailed expertise of a historian with
the sensitivity of a teacher of it as poetry. Lane Fox goes on to consider hallmarks of the
poem  its values  implicit and explicit  its characters  its women  its gods and even its
horses. He argues repeatedly for its beautiful observation and addresses its parallel use of
what is  to us  the natural world. Thousands of readers turn to the Iliad every year. In this
superbly written and conceived tribute  Lane Fox expresses and amplifies what old and new
readers can find in it. It is pervaded  he argues  by a poignant hardness which is not just a
poetic trick. It is a deeply held view of the world.

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