USED Iliad of Homer (Homer - Lattimore transl.)

Author: Homer

Translator: Richard Lattimore

ISBN: 9780226470498

Binding: paperback

Section: Literature of the Ancient World

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation — the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.

This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century — while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses — with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek — remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers.