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The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation
Availability:In StockContributor:Robert Fitzgerald (Translator), HomerPublish date:4/3/2004Pages:640
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374529055ISBN-10:374529051UPC:9780374529055Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Epic, Anthologies (multiple authors)Size:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SC8TTD2F9D

"Mr. Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful text rather than exotic relics." ―The Atlantic Monthly

Anger be now your song, immortal one,
Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
and crowded brave...


Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374529055ISBN-10:374529051UPC:9780374529055Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Epic, Anthologies (multiple authors)Size:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SC8TTD2F9D

Robert Fitzgerald's versions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, and the Oedipus plays of Sophocles (with Dudley Fitts) are prized by scholars and general readers alike. An admired poet and teacher of writing, he died in 1988.


Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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