An/Year: 1988
Auteur/Author: Homeros
Editeur/Editor/: Harvard University Press
Langue/Language: United Kingdom
Format: Hardcover
Dimension: 17 x 11 cm
Condition: Used - Good

With an English translation by A. T. Murray. London 1988. (Loeb Classical Library LCL 170/171).

Condition : good, traces of shelf wear to the dust jackets, otherwise very good copy.

Bilingual edition in Old Greek and English.

This eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans", at a serious insult to his personal honour and recounts the tragic result - a chain of consequences that proves devastating for the Greek forces besieging Troy, for the noble Trojans and for Achilles himself. The poet provides a compelling characterisation of his protagonists and a remarkable study of the heroic code in antiquity. The works attributed to Homer include the two oldest and greatest European epic poems, the Odyssey and the Iliad. They have been published in the Loeb Classical Library for three quarters of a century, with the Greek text set against a faithful and literate prose translation by A. T. Murray.