And Trojans hearing the brazen voice of Aeacides,
all their spirits quaked – even sleek-maned horses,
sensing death in the wind, slewed their chariots round
and charioteers were struck dumb when they saw that fire,
relentless, terrible, burst from proud-hearted Achilles' head,
blazing as fiery-eyed Athena fuelled the flames.
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This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book.
The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes lived—and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: The Appeal of the Iliad
The Homeric Question
The Date of the Iliad
The Iliad and the Orient
Style
Gods
The Hlomeric View of Man
The Transmission of the Text and the Task of
the Editor
The Scholia
The Homeric Dialect
Metre
Seleel Bibliography
Text and Translation
Commentary
Glossary
General index
Greek Index.
Edition Notes
Text in Greek and English on facing pages.
Includes bibliography (p. 64-68) and indexes.
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Interesting piece in the Guardian on Iliad and WWI.
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