The Iliad

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Title
The Iliad
Description
The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, The New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of the first great Homeric epic: The Iliad. In Wilson's hands, this exciting and often horrifying work now gallops at a pace befitting its battle scenes, roaring with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors and the anguished cries of dying men. Wilson's unadorned but resonant language plumbs the poem's profound pathos and reveals its characters as palpably real, even "complicated", human beings. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homer's poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)
PA4025.A2 W56 2023
Authors
Homer
Full Title
Iliad. English (Wilson)
Date
2023
From the Exhibit
Sappho's Literary Legacies and Afterlives:Ε. Μετάφραση, Translation and Legacies
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Location
New York (N.Y.)
Language
English
Rights
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Type
text
Edition
First edition.
Medium
book
Bibliographic Citation
Homer. The Iliad. Trans. by Emily R. Wilson. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2023. Curatorial copy.

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