EAN: 9781324076148

HOMER THE ILIAD

When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey  appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in
a contemporary idiom that was "fresh  unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller   The Washington
Post )-critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira   The New York Times ) and "a cultural
landmark" (Charlotte Higgins   Guardian ) that would forever change how Homer is read in
English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other great
epic-the most revered war poem of all time.   The Iliad roars with the clamour of arms  the
bellowing boasts of victors  the fury and grief of loss and the anguished cries of dying men.
It sings  too  of the sublime magnitude of the world-the fierce beauty of nature and the gods'
grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson's hands  this thrilling  magical and often
horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes  in crisp but
resonant language that evokes the poem's deep pathos and reveals palpably real  even
"complicated " characters-both human and divine.   The culmination of a decade of intense
engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry 
Wilson's  Iliad  now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.   Specially bound paperback
edition  with deckle-edging (rough-cut) pages and French flaps. 

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