Iliad of Homer (Lattimore transl.)

Author: Homer Translator: Richard Lattimore ISBN: 9780226470498 Binding: paperback Section: Literature of the Ancient World "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation — the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century — while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses — with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek — remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers.