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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520281411
ISBN-139780520281417
eBay Product ID (ePID)205974809
Product Key Features
Book TitleIliad : a New Translation by Peter Green
Number of Pages608 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicGeneral, Ancient & Classical
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry
AuthorHomer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight36.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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LCCN2014-038401
ReviewsTranslating Homer into English is almost a genre of its own. . . . Is there still a gap in the market? Peter Green's new translation shows that there is. . . . his particular merit lies in achieving a clarity and fluidity that carries the reader (or indeed the declaimer) forward. . . . a notable achievement., Readers will learn a great deal about the Iliad from Green's detailed introduction and from comprehensive synopses of each book. A list summarizing the roles of main characters (Achilles to Zeus) and an index of names will benefit new readers as well as pros. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended., Green shows the wonderful things that can happen when Homeric rhythms are combined with a free-flowing and naturalistic English., "By "preserving the strangeness" of Homer, [Peter Green] gives the reader the fullest possible access to the ancient mind, into Homer's distant universe of wine-faced seas, god-like men and bronze skies.", Readers will learn a great deal about the Iliad from Green's detailed introduction and from comprehensive synopses of each book. A list summarizing the roles of main characters (Achilles to Zeus) and an index of names will benefit new readers as well as pros. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended., [Green] gets the interpretation right without interrupting the forward motion that is always Homer's aim--and this is one of the great virtues of Green's translation as a whole: its limber fluency.
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SynopsisOne of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers. Featuring an enticingly personal introduction, a detailed synopsis of each book, a wide-ranging glossary, and explanatory notes for the few puzzling in-text items, the book also includes a select bibliography for those who want to learn more about Homer and the Greek epic. This landmark translation--specifically designed, like the oral original, to be read aloud--will soon be required reading for every student of Greek antiquity, and the great traditions of history and literature to which it gave birth.
LC Classification NumberPA4025.A2G75 2015
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- 28. Sep. 2016
Catches the flavor of the Greek vocabulary, idioms, and rhythm in a truly uncanny way, you almost wonder if you're reading the original Greek
Catches the flavor of the Greek vocabulary, idioms, and rhythm in a truly uncanny way, you almost wonder if you're reading the original Greek. I read five or ten lines in the public library and decided then and there to buy one. Super.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
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