Homer

Broschiertes Buch

The Iliad of Homer

Beschreibung

This long-awaited new edition is designed to bring the book into the 21st 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 Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. 528 pp.

Autor

Though he is traditionally credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, there is no reliable information about an actual, historical Homer. In antiquity, he was an honored figure, despite little being known about his life or even his era; he was credited then with several other shorter works in addition to the two epics. Current scholarship tends to view the poems as the work of many hands over many years, with differing opinions on the role and importance of any single figure in their creation or promulgation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 139mm x 215mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9780226470498
• ISBN-10: 0226470490
• Artikelnr.: 33252361