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The Iliad
Availability:In StockContributor:Homer, E. V. Rieu (Translator), Peter Jones (Revised by)Series:Penguin ClassicsPublish date:4/29/2003Pages:560
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140447941ISBN-10:140447946UPC:9780140447941Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, EpicSize:7.92 x 5.12 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCMD0SPC20
E.V. Rieu's beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. Rieu

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140447941ISBN-10:140447946UPC:9780140447941Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, EpicSize:7.92 x 5.12 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCMD0SPC20
Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives.

He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey - are...
Publisher: Penguin Classics

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