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 Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. » Add other authors (169 possible) | Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | | Homer | — | primary author | all editions | confirmed | | Baskin, Leonard | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Bendz, Gerhard | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Björkeson, Ingvar | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Bruijn, J.C. | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Butler, Samuel | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Chapman, George | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Cullen, Patrick | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | De La Motte, Monsr. | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Fagles, Robert | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Fitzgerald, Robert | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Flaxman, John | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Graves, Robert | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Holland, Tom | Afterword | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Jacobi, Derek | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Knox, Bernard | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Lagerlöf, Erland | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Lang, Andrew | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Lateur, Patrick | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Lattimore, Richmond | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Leaf, Walter | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Linkomies, Edwin | Foreword | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Lombardo, Stanley | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Manninen, Otto | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Mitchell. Stephen | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Monti, Vincenzo | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Myers, Ernest | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Pope, Alexander | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Rees, Ennis | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Rieu, Emile Victor | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Roberts, Adam | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Rouse, W. H. D. | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Stolpe, Jan | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Svenbro, Jesper | Foreword | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Timmerman, Aegidius W. | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Vosmaer, C. | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Voss, Johann Heinrich | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed |
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There thou shalt hear and learn the secret power
Of harmony, in tones and numbers hit
By voice or hand, and various-measured verse,
Aeolian charms and Dorian lyric odes,
And his who gave them breath, but higher sung,
Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer called,
Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own.
--Milton, Paradise Regained, IV. 245
(Rouse translation, 1938)  These dull notes we sing
Discords neede for helps to grace them
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To the memory of my father and my mother
and for Lynne, Katya and Nina ...
(Fagles translation, 1996) To all times future this time's mark extend,
Homer no patron found, nor Chapman friend
Ignotus nimis omnibus
Sat notus moritur sibi.
(Chapman translation)
For Sarah, and for Ughetta, Benedict, Maria, Michael, Barnaby, and Caterina
(Fitzgerald translation) TO
MY MOTHER AND FATHER
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Anger be now your song, immortal one,
Achilles' anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Achaens loss on bitter loss
and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
leaving so many dead men - carrion
for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.
(Fitzgerald translation, 1974) Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles,
murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaens countless losses,
hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls,
great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion,
feasts for the dogs and birds,
and the will of Zeus was moving towards its end.
(Fagles translation, 1996) Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus
and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the
Achaians,
hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls
of heroes, but gave their bodies to be the delicate feasting
of dogs, of all birds, and the will of Zeus was accomplished
since that time when first there stood in division of conflict
Atreus' son the lord of men and brilliant Achilleus.
(Lattimore, 1951) Rage:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls
Of heroes into Hades' dark,
And left their bodies to rot as feasts
For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done
(Lombardo translation, 1997) Achilles' banefull wrath resound, O Goddess, that impos'd
Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls los'd
From breasts heroique; sent them far to that invisible cave
That no light comforts; and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave:
To all which Jove's will gave effect; from whom first strife begun
Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son.
(Chapman translation, 1598)
An angry man--there is my story: The bitter rancour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand troubles upon the Achaian host.
(Rouse translation, 1938) Sing, O Goddess, the ruinous wrath of Achilles
Son of Peleus, the terrible curse that brought
Unnumbered woes upon the Achaeans and hurled
To Hades so many heroic souls, leaving
Their bodies the prey of dogs and carrion birds.
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"The worst cowards, banded together, have their power but you and I have got the skill to fight their best" -- Poseidon's encounter with Idomeneus at the turn of the battle for the ships | |
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Due to the "dead language exception" copies of the Iliad in the original Greek should not be combined with modern language translations. Also, individual volumes should not be combined with other individual volumes or with the complete work. The original Greek title was “Ἰλιάς” | |
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Stanley Lombardo's Translation (2006) Parmenides Publishing
The first of Homer's great epic poems, the Iliad portrays the final days of the Trojan war. The Iliad has stood the test of time and is still one of (it not the) best depictions of ancient warfare. It is an essential precursor to the infamous journey of Odysseus.
Translated by Stanley Lombardo. Introduction by Susan Sarandon. | |
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▾Book descriptions Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0140275363, Paperback)
This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:25:40 -0500) (see all 11 descriptions) ▾Library descriptions "Rage -- Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls ... " Thus begins the stirring story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles that has gripped listeners and readers for 2,700 years. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb Introduction that although the violence of the lliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.-- Front fly leaf.… (more) (summary from another edition) » see all 21 descriptions |
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