The Iliad - Complete and Unabridged (Collector's Library)

Homer

ISBN 10: 1904633382 / ISBN 13: 9781904633389

Editore: Barnes & Noble Collector's Library, 2011

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• Titolo: The Iliad - Complete and Unabridged (Collector's Library)
• Editore: Barnes & Noble Collector's Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1904633382
• ISBN 13: 9781904633389
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: good

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Riassunto

The Iliad is one of the finest of all the great works that have been handed down to us from Classical Antiquity. Paris, a Trojan prince, having won Helen as his prize for judging a beauty contest between the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, abducted her from her Greek husband Menelaus and transported her to Troy. The Greeks, enraged by this audacity and devastated by the loss of the most beautiful woman in the world, set sail to Troy and began the long siege of the city. The Iliad narrates the events ten years into the war, describing the anger of Achilles, which results in the death of Patroclus and Achilles's mourning of him and avenging of his murder. It has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ages. Even though it was written more than two thousand years ago, The Iliad remains both powerful and enthralling.

Informazioni sull?autore

The identity of the writer of The Iliad is a matter of some speculation. The ancients were convinced it was Homer, although they tended to disagree as to biographical details. The best supported evidence suggests he lived in Chios, an island off the west coast of Turkey, between 1100 and 700 B.C., probably closer to the latter. Traditionally portrayed as revered, old, and blind, he composed The Iliad and Odyssey and possibly the Homeric Hymns, a series of choral addresses to the gods.