{"product_id":"iliad-9780374529055","title":"The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Mr. Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful text rather than exotic relics.\" ―\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnger be now your song, immortal one, \u003cbr\u003eAkhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, \u003cbr\u003ethat caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss\u003cbr\u003eand crowded brave souls into the undergloom, \u003cbr\u003eleaving so many dead men-carrion\u003cbr\u003efor dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.\u003cbr\u003e-Lines 1-6 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince it was first published, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e are compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that \"makes Homer live as never before\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition includes a new foreword by Andrew Ford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Fitzgerald\u003c\/b\u003e's versions of \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Aeneid\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eOedipus \u003c\/i\u003eplays of Sophocles (with Dudley Fitts) are prized by scholars and general readers alike. An admired poet and teacher of writing, he died in 1988.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615269294354,"sku":"9780374529055","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eeedc6c8-c5e2-499d-9dba-5a354b90449b.jpg?v=1768303705","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/iliad-9780374529055","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}