Penguin Classics Homer The Iliad

Homer

ISBN 10: 0140444440 / ISBN 13: 9780140444445

Editore: Penguin Classics, 1987

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• Titolo: Penguin Classics Homer The Iliad
• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140444440
• ISBN 13: 9780140444445
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Very Good

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La migliore traduzione moderna in prosa dell'Iliade ' Robin Lane Fox, The Times La prima delle grandi tragedie del mondo, L'Iliade è incentrata sui quattro giorni cruciali verso la fine della guerra decennale tra Greci e Troiani. In una serie di scene drammatiche, segue la storia dell'umiliazione di Achille per mano di Agamennone e del suo assassinio di Ettore: un atto barbaro con ripercussioni che alla fine determinano il destino di Troia. L'Iliade non solo dipinge un quadro intimo dell'esperienza individuale, ma offre anche una prospettiva universale in cui la perdita e la sofferenza umana sono ambientate in un vasto e spietato sfondo divino in cui dei volubili e litigiosi decidono il destino degli uomini. Tradotto con un'introduzione di Martin Hammond.

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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.

Martin Hammond is headmaster of the Tonbridge School and has translated Homer’s Iliad for Penguin Classics.