The Iliad

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The Iliad

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ISBN: 9780374529055
author: Homer
translator: Robert Fitzgerald S J
publishing house: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
publication date: 2004 -2
binding: Paperback
price: GBP 10.53
number of pages: 640

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The Fitzgerald Translation

Homer    translator: Robert Fitzgerald S J

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Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter lossand crowded brave souls into the undergloom, leaving so many dead men-carrionfor dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.-Lines 1-6 Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, 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.

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