The Iliad - Brossura

Homer

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374529051 ISBN 13: 9780374529055

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004

Riassunto

Anger be now your song, immortal one,
Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
leaving so many dead men-carrion
for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.
-Lines 1-6

Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that "makes Homer live as never before" (Library Journal).

This edition includes a new foreword by Andrew Ford.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Robert Fitzgerald's versions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, and the Oedipus plays of Sophocles (with Dudley Fitts) are prized by scholars and general readers alike. An admired poet and teacher of writing, he died in 1988.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0374529051
• ISBN 13: 9780374529055
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 512