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The Iliad

The Iliad( )
Author: Fagles, Robert
Homer, A.
Contribution by: Carabine, Keith
Intro and Notes by: Roberts, Adam
Series title:Classics Library
ISBN:978-1-85326-242-5
Publication Date:Jan 1995
Publisher:Wordsworth Editions, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $4.99
Book Description:

A translation of Homer's poem of war which is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. This volume retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans.

Book Details
Pages:448
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.031 x 7.722 x 0.117 Inches
Book Weight:0.278 Pounds
Author Biography
Fagles, Robert (Author)
Translator and professor Robert Fagles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1933. He received a BA in English from Amherst College and a PhD in English from Yale University. While obtaining his degrees, he studied Latin and Greek on the side. He taught at Yale for one year and then joined the faculty at Princeton University as an English professor and remained there until he retired in 2002. While at Princeton, he created the university's department of comparative literature and received an honorary doctorate in June 2007.

He was also a renowned translator of Latin and Greek. His first published translation was of the Greek poet Bacchylides (1961), which was followed by versions of The Oresteia by Aeschylus and the plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles. Fagles was best known for his versions of The Iliad (1990), The Odyssey (1996) and The Aeneid (2006). Instead of being an exacting literal translator, he sought to reinterpret the classics in a contemporary idiom which gave his translations a narrative energy and verve. He died of prostate cancer on March 26, 2008.

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