{"product_id":"the-iliad-of-homer-0226470490-used","title":"The Iliad of Homer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0226470490\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Homer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus son Achilleus \/ and its devastation.\" For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation-the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century-while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses-with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek-remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book.The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes lived-and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67588370694432,"sku":"USED0226470490","price":8.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61xbfNmcFwL_41d4bfd7-474d-479a-a3b0-e78fa4e4145c.jpg?v=1790584040","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-iliad-of-homer-0226470490-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}