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Homer,Caroline Alexander

The Iliad

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With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan War
Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the abiding, blighting facts of war.
Soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished, hero and coward, men, women, young, old—The Iliad evokes in poignant, searing detail the fate of every life ravaged by the Trojan War. And, as told by Homer, this ancient tale of a particular Bronze Age conflict becomes a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war throughout the ages.
Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander’s new translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source—a translation epic in scale and yet devastating in its precision and power.
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649 štampanih stranica
Godina izdavanja
2015

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  • Evelyne Urvanulchaerje citiraoпре 4 године
    The poet’s use of “swift ships” as opposed to “well-benched ships,” then, has nothing to do with a desire to emphasize speed over construction; the choice is determined only by the metrical phrasing that is needed.
  • Evelyne Urvanulchaerje citiraoпре 4 године
    Modern views range from the belief that Homer was the last and defining poet writing at the end of the long epic tradition; to the belief that there never was a Homer at all, but only a shared tradition passed down by generations of bards; and on to the extreme view that there is no single definitive Iliad, only versions of its various performances
  • Evelyne Urvanulchaerje citiraoпре 4 године
    from this point on, the Iliad cannot be mistaken for glorifying war’s destructive violence. Rather, it makes explicit the tragic cost of such glory, even to the greatest warrior.
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