The Iliad by Homer

The Iliad by Homer

In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our century by the distinguished poet and classicist Robert Fitzgerald, whose version of The Iliad does justice in every way to the fluent vigor and gravity of the Homeric original.

Homer is a mythological ancient Greek poet who is often credited with writing the Iliad and Odyssey epic poems.