The Iliad Format: Paperback

Homer (Author); Rieu, E. V. (Translator); Jones, Peter (Revised by)

ISBN 10: 0140447946 / ISBN 13: 9780140447941

Editore: Penguin Random House, 2003

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• Titolo: The Iliad Format: Paperback
• Editore: Penguin Random House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140447946
• ISBN 13: 9780140447941
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: As New

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Il primo grande libro, e il primo grande libro sulla sofferenza e la perdita della guerra' Guardian Una delle più grandi conquiste della letteratura occidentale, l'Iliade di Omero racconta la storia dell'episodio più oscuro della guerra di Troia. Al centro c'è Achille, il più grande guerriero-campione dei Greci, che si rifiuta di combattere dopo essere stato umiliato dal suo capo Agamennone. Ma quando il troiano Ettore uccide il caro amico di Achille, Patroclo, questi torna in battaglia per vendicarsi, sapendo che questo gli assicurerà una morte prematura. L'acclamata traduzione dell'Iliade di EV Rieu è stata uno dei primi titoli pubblicati in Penguin Classics e ora ha essa stessa lo status di classico. Originariamente tradotto da EV RIEU Revisionato e aggiornato da PETER JONES con DCH RIEU Modificato con un'introduzione e note di PETER JONES.

Informazioni sull?autore

Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives.

He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer – the Iliad and the Odyssey – are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.

In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller’s tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope.

We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact ‘Homer’ may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps ‘the hostage’ or ‘the blind one’. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years’ time.

E. V. Rieu was a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek, and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-1964. His son, D. C. H. Rieu has revised his work.

Peter Jones is former lecturer in classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

D. C. H. Rieu is the son of E. V. Rieu, celebrated translator from Latin and Greek and Editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-1964.

Peter Jones is former lecturer in classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.