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The Iliad of Homer
The Iliad of Homer
Author: Homer
"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus? son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation?the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. — This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226470498
ISBN-10: 0226470490
Publication Date: 10/15/2011
Pages: 528
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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awesome translation! Enjoyed it much!
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YES! I read the whole thing! AND The Odyssey! I can actually quote, from memory, part of the prologue to the Canterbury Tales IN OLDE ENGLISH. Boy, did I get an education, or what!


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