{"product_id":"the-iliad-of-homer-9780226470498","title":"The Iliad of Homer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus \/ and its devastation.\" For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation--the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century--while leaving the \u003ci\u003epoem\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichmond\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Lattimore\u003c\/b\u003e (1906-1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. \u003cb\u003eRichard Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is the Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics at Stanford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50583528734994,"sku":"9780226470498","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8fbdbf20-751c-4ad0-b773-18f39e84d469.jpg?v=1732029491","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-iliad-of-homer-9780226470498","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}