โ Homer
๐ Fiction
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2010
๐ English
โ 233 KB
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The War Nerd Iliad: Modern Prose Translation of Homer's Iliad
โ Scribed by John Dolan
- Publisher
- Feral House
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 387 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1627310649
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
We recognize the names: Achilles, Odysseus, Zeus, and Apollo. We're taught that The Iliad is a foundational text of civilization. But who has really read the text? Until now, The Iliad was hijacked by academics and used to bludgeon schoolchildren as a boring-yet- mandatory reading.
Poet, novelist, essayist, and former teacher John Dolan revisits this ancient tale and restores it to its ancient glory. The Greeks and Trojans are still fighting. The gods are still interfering. But in Dolan's version, you'll be amazed at how funny, raw, and terrifying this doomed world of war really is. He strips away clunky, archaic language to reveal the true meaning and themes that animate this tale of war and futility.
John Dolan's work under the nom de guerre "Gary Brecher The War Nerd" has been met with both acclaim and controversy. Dolan's version of The Iliad is sapped of the usual saccharine romance attributed to "heroes" and lets the action tell the story. Regardless of...
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Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleusโ 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 pub