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1) The Iliad
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English
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"The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation"--
"The greatest literary landmark of 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 was “fresh, unpretentious...
2) The odyssey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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The epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.
A new translation of the epic poem, and the first by a woman, brings alive Homer's tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic, and provides an introductory overview of the poem's major themes, controversial origin, and the scope of its influence.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find...
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Language
English
Description
An English translation of the Greek epic in which Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home after the Trojan War, while his son Telemachos and wife Penelope are forced to scheme to protect his throne until his return. Includes a glossary, background information, literary criticism, and illustrations.
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Series
Great books of the western world volume 4
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
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Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Taking readers on an extraordinary journey through mythical and modern landscapes, the author of a celebrated column for The Sunday Telegraph explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes and reveals the real roots of Homeric consciousness.
14) The Iliad
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Gillian Cross's fine retelling of Homer's epic story captures all the heroism and savagery of war and shows why the 'Iliad' has been called the first tragedy and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization"--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey - a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values."--BOOK JACKET
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"'Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus{u2019} 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 twenty-first century -- while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's...
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