The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green [Hardcover]

One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, theIliadis a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures theIliadin all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers.

Featuring an enticingly personal introduction, a detailed synopsis of each book, a wide-ranging glossary, and explanatory notes for the few puzzling in-text items, the book also includes a select bibliography for those who want to learn more about Homer and the Greek epic. This landmark translationspecifically designed, like the oral original, to be read aloudwill soon be required reading for every student of Greek antiquity, and the great traditions of history and literature to which it gave birth.

Peter Greenis Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa. He is the author of both historical studies and translations of poetry, includingThe Poems of Catullusand ApolloniossThe Argonautika, both by UC Press.

Intended for a Greekless readership, veteran translator Peter Green's brilliant new version of theIliaddoes full justice to the extraordinary genius of Homer's epic tragedy, not only capturing the original's pristine force but also skillfully controlling the rhythm, idiom, and rhetoric of the master poet's hexameter verses.Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Clare College, Cambridge University

It is not easy to stake out new ground with anIliadtranslation, but Peter Green has done so magnificently. Readingor, much better, hearingthis translation must be as close as one can get in English to the original Greek experience, and Green's sensitivity to the rhythms, word-order, and stylistic register of the origilCM