The Iliad
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Book Info
Author
Homer
Word Count
160,000 words
based on page count
Pages
640 pages
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Edition Publisher
Farar, Straus & Giroux
Edition Publish Date
2004-01-01
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0374529051
ISBN-13: 9780374529055
Description
Anger be now your song, immortal one,
Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
leaving so many dead men-carrion for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.
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Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that "makes Homer live as never before" (Library Journal).
This edition includes a new foreword by Andrew Ford.
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