Useful for CLAS 326 semester 1, 2026
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\”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. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book.
The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer’s poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes lived-and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.
ISBN: 9780226470498
Publication date: 11/11/2011
Price: $33.29
RRP: $36.99
Format: Paperback
Available stock: 2
Publishing status: Active
Author: Homer/Lattimore, Richmond
Illustrator: Martin, R. intro and notes
Imprint: Uni Chicago Press
