Iliad (Homer - Roman Roads ed.)

Author: Homer

Translator: Wesley Callihan

ISBN: 9781944482589

Binding: paperback

Section: Literature of the Ancient World

This prose rendering by Wesley Callihan of Homer’s great epic is based on the 1883 translation of Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers. Although accurate, the storytelling of the older translation is obscured, sometimes to the point of incomprehension, by the archaic Elizabethan and Sir Thomas Mallory diction and style. The text has been revised into contemporary American English while preserving much of the syntactical structure and style.