EAN: 9781324076148

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey  appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller   The Washington Post )-critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira   The New York Times ) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins   Guardian ) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other great epic-the most revered war poem of all time. The Iliad roars with the clamour of arms the bellowing boasts of victors the fury and grief of loss and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings too of the sublime magnitude of the world-the fierce beauty of nature and the gods' grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson's hands this thrilling magical and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem's deep pathos and reveals palpably real even "complicated " characters-both human and divine. 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. Specially bound paperback edition with deckle-edging (rough-cut) pages and French flaps. 

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