The Iliad Hardcover by Homer; Translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Introduction by Gregory Nagy

Product Details

• Publisher: Everyman's Library (1992-03-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 616 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679410751
• Item Weight: 646.38 grams
• Dimensions: 21.08 x 13.54 x 3.48 cm

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.

About the Author

Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, The Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and The Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.