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The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price:
$23.33

Description

Anger be now your song, immortal one,
Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
leaving so many dead men-carrion
for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.
-Lines 1-6

Since it was first published, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that makes Homer live as never before (Library Journal).

This edition includes a new foreword by Andrew Ford.

Author: Robert Fitzgerald, Homer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/03/2004
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780374529055
ISBN10: 0374529051
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Ancient & Classical
- Poetry | Epic

About the Author

Robert Fitzgerald's versions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, and the Oedipus plays of Sophocles (with Dudley Fitts) are prized by scholars and general readers alike. An admired poet and teacher of writing, he died in 1988.