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Homer's The Iliad: A New Translation

✍ Scribed by Green, Peter

Book ID
109022776
Publisher
University of California Press
Tongue
en-US
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780520281417

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Overview: One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers.

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