The Iliad Of Homer Av Homer

Book 18 of the Iliad is an outstanding example of the range and power of Homeric epic. This edition provides an introduction, text and commentary suitable for intermediate and advanced students of Greek. It includes grammatical and other aid to translation...

The twenty-fourth book of the Iliad is one of the masterpieces of world literature, a work of interest to a far wider audience than scholars of ancient Greek. In his introduction Colin Macleod examines Homer's notion of poetry, his style and language...

It is the ninth year of the siege of Troy by the Greeks. Will the fighting go on for ever?

A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation. <br/> <br/>The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature...