Homer : Iliad (Rouse)
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Homer : Iliad (Rouse) by Homer
Cast yourself as a legend of epic proportions in your own autobiography--just follow the prompts and questions of The Legend of Me.While your life story feels like a mythic saga for you, it can easily sound mundane to everyone else. Geek culture expert Alexis Lampley provides you with the prompts and questions you need to frame your everyday life as a valiant quest full of adventure, mystery, romance, and suspense. Big promotion? More like treasure won in glorious battle Slovenly roommate? You mean a troll you were forced to trick and defeat.
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In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time.
Robert Fagles (1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles's Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus's Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer's Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer's Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid. Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).SKU | Unavailable |
ISBN 13 | 9780451620569 |
ISBN 10 | 0451620569 |
Title | Homer : Iliad (Rouse) |
Author | Homer |
Series | Mentor Series |
Condition | Unavailable |
Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
Year published | 1950-01-02 |
Number of pages | 309 |
Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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