{"title":"Books by Homer","description":"\u003cp\u003eAttributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer, this timeless epic is a cornerstone of Western literature, blending myth, history, and moral reflection. Its vivid portrayal of heroism, divine intervention, and human frailty continues to captivate readers, offering insight into the values and imagination of early civilisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition presents the work in clear, authoritative translation, accompanied by thoughtful notes and context to enhance understanding. Perfect for students and general readers alike, it brings the distant world of heroic Greece to life with enduring power and poetic grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre you this author? Drop us a line to update your details \u003cb\u003ehello@bookcurl.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-iliad-9781853262425","title":"The Iliad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a \u003cp\u003emagnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapman regarded the translation of this epic, and of Homer's \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e (also available in Wordsworth Editions) as his life's work, and dedicated himself to capturing the 'soul' of the poem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSwinburne praised the resulting translation for its ‘romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur, its freshness, strength, and inexhaustible fire’, qualities that reflect the grandeur, fire and brutality of the original poem. 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The questions about mortality and identity that Homer's heroes ask, the bonds of love, respect and fellowship that motivate them, have gripped audiences for three millennia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapman's \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e are great English epic poems, but they are also two of the liveliest and readable translations of Homer. Chapman's freshness makes the everyday world of nature and the craftsman as vivid as the battlefield and Mount Olympus. 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Samuel Butler's famous prose translation of Homer's original brings the epic to an entirely new generation of readers.","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48863938216279,"sku":"9780008299392","price":5.62,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780008299392.jpg?v=1722269688"},{"product_id":"the-iliad-9780140444445","title":"The Iliad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA story that centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth and final year of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. It describes how the quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilleus sets in motion a tragic sequence of events, which leads to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determines the ultimate fate of Troy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuch the best modern prose translation of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e -- Robin Lane Fox * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis new prose translation of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e is outstandingly good . . . to read it is to be gripped by it * Classical Review *\u003cbr\u003eSuperbly direct and eloquent . . . by its sensitivity, fluency, and flexibility, it will win a permanent place on the shelves of Homer-lovers -- Martin Fagg * Times Educational Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eMartin Hammond's new version is the best and most accurate there has ever been, as smooth as cream but as clear as water . . . Hammond's Iliad deserves to become a standard book -- Peter Levi * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eSurely the best \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e in quite a few decades * Greece \u0026amp; Rome Journal *\u003cbr\u003eHere is a fine \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e for our times, to be read with great pleasure -- Philip Howard * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe background to \"The Iliad\"; the theme of \"The Iliad\"; a critical summary of \"The Iliad\"; a note on names. \"The Iliad\": book 1 - the anger of Achilleus; book 2 - the catalogue of ships; book 3 - Paris, Helen, Aphrodite; book 4 - the breaking of the truce; book 5 - Diomedes triumphant; book 6 - Hektor in Troy; book 7 - duel of Hektor and Aias; book 8 - Trojan success; book 9 - the embassy to Achilleus; book 10 - night operations; book 11 - Achaian retreat; book 12 - the assault on the wall; book 13 - the Achains rally; book 14 - the seduction of Zeus; book 15 - fighting at the ships; book 16 - the death of Patroklos; book 17 - the battle over Patroklos; book 18 - Thetis, Achilleus, and new armour; book 19 - Achilleus and Agamemnon reconciled; book 20 - the return of Achilleus; book 21 - the battle of the Gods; book 22 - the death of Hektor; book 23 - funeral games for Patroklos; book 24 - Achilleus and Priam.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864179454295,"sku":"9780140444445","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"the-odyssey-9780393089059","title":"The Odyssey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s \"nimble gallop\" and brings an ancient epic to new life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The first version of Homer's groundbreaking work by a woman will change our understanding of it for ever... Emily Wilson’s crisp and musical version is a cultural landmark. Armed with a sharp, scholarly rigour, she has produced a translation that exposes centuries of masculinist readings of the poem.\" -- Charlotte Higgins, Poetry Book of the Day - The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson’s approach has been to translate the text in a way that resonates with today’s politics. Her translation, spare and provocative, will engage a new generation of students.\" -- Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\"... Emily Wilson proves an appropriately beguiling female translator... This is certainly an \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e for our moment … [a] swift, unornamented text.\" -- The Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\"The joy of Homer is precisely the generosity and suppleness of the material, the fact that it resists being read in a single way. That’s why a new kind of guide through his wild landscapes, across his wine-dark seas, is to be welcomed.\" -- The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson’s \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e feels like a restoration of an old, familiar building that had over the years been encrusted with too much gilt. Wilson translates as though translation is a moral choice — you owe fidelity not to the author, nor to the protagonist, but to the truth behind the words and the times. She scrapes away at old encrusted layers, until she exposes what lies beneath.\" -- Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\"It is immensely satisfying to see \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e in the hands of such a careful and creative scholar who can pore over the semantic nuances of Homer's Greek as well as those of her own English. Considerations of gender aside, perhaps Wilson's greatest achievement is to disprove the increasingly held view that versions of ancient texts require an established poet to be parachuted in, like a literary James Bond, to rescue their English lines from the prosaic. For a translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e that knows what it is talking about and sings as it speaks, this is the one to read.\" -- New Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece of translation—fluent, elegant, vigorous.\" -- Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\"As the first English translation of this ancient tale by a woman, this lively, fast-paced retelling of Homer’s epic is long overdue. Much as Homer did in his time, Wilson whisks the audience into a realm both familiar and fantastical. The world of Odysseus and his adventures take shape before the reader’s eyes, luminescent once more, in this engaging new translation.\" -- Justine McConnell, King’s College London\u003cbr\u003e\" This will surely be the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e of choice for a generation.\" -- Lorna Hardwick, The Open University\u003cbr\u003e\"I am not quite sure why, but this instantly hot-wired me into tears.\" -- Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent\u003cbr\u003e\"I think this is a really significant literary moment.\" -- Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u003cbr\u003e\"Friends, believe the hype. This translation is a marvel!... The sheer energy of the iambic pentameter is revelatory. Her word choices! The rhythm and the politics so delicious, so alive. And the man is devious and quick and fit to bursting with arrogance and cunning. He's perfect. It's sublime.\" -- Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e translated by Emily Wilson. One of the great narratives of all time. You think you know it ? Not until you read this one. Stunning translation\/interpretation.\" -- Susan Hill\u003cbr\u003e\"Now we have an excellent new translation of the epic by the British classicist Emily Wilson. Norton trumpets it as “the first English translation of the ‘Odyssey’ by a woman.”... But Wilson’s rendering is remarkable in other ways as well.\" -- The International New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Wilson wipes the dust of ages from Homer’s prose in her new translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e. Accessible and entertaining, she provides an elegant rendering of the classic.\" -- Peter Campbell, Favourite reads of 2017 - as chosen by scientists - The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"There are many other [other than being the first female translation] stunning things about Wilson’s translation, from the five-beat lines to the straightforward speech, free from the elegant clunkiness that we usually see when scholars try to carry words over from one language to another. But one of them is certainly an awareness of her own daring.\" -- Eidolon\u003cbr\u003e\"... Emily Wilson’s brilliant introduction to her new translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e shows the classical world as capable of feminist inflections.\" -- The Observer\u003cbr\u003e\"... a monumental piece of work on her part...\" -- Stig Abell - BBC Radio 4 Front Row\u003cbr\u003e\"I thought this was just moving, it was musical, it was direct, it was straightforward […] anyone could read it and really, really enjoy it.\" -- Rosie Goldsmith - BBC Radio 4, Saturday Review\u003cbr\u003e\"All the artistic choices work. I must admit when I heard we were reviewing \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, I thought ‘Oh no, it’s going to be wordy and dull’ […] but it wasn’t, it really felt fresh and alive and exciting.\" -- Sophie Hannah - BBC Radio 4, Saturday Review\u003cbr\u003e\"... Emily Wilson's terrific new translation...\" -- The i Paper\u003cbr\u003e\"Poetry that reads like a thriller.\" -- R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps series\u003cbr\u003e\"The new Emily Wilson translation of \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e is brilliant and sharp and swift and funny and will repay the reader a thousand times over.\" -- Katherine Rundell\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson’s translation is a superb achievement and a striking departure from the tradition of Homeric translation into English... [She] has produced a wonderfully distinctive—and modern—version of the poem.\" -- London Evening Standard\u003cbr\u003e\"The real reason why Emily Wilson’s version of this nearly three-millennia-old poem is so important is that it combines intellectual authority with addictive readability.\" -- Edith Hall - The Sunday Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Odyssey speaks of 'a complicated man' with an 'old story for our modern times'.\" -- The Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Wilson... is the first woman to translate Homer's entire epic into English, and she has produced something extraordinary. In her hands, a work believed to have been written at around the end of the eighth century BC is transformed into something that might have been written yesterday: vivid, exciting and utterly immersive... her accessible and fascinating introduction explains the poem's origins and reception, and such crucial concepts as 'guest-friendship' (xenia).\" -- The Lady\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Wilson, […] whose translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e – the first translation by a woman, might I add – is currently destroying me, so it’s good. You can just tell from the way she writes and from her very ballsy interpretive translation that she’s got a wicked, daring mind, and a deeply poetic one.\" -- Hannah Epperson - Female First\u003cbr\u003e\"... this new version of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e... is a fresh and worthwhile addition to the many existing translations, both for newcomers and veteran readers... Wilson offers a neat, accurate and lively verse translation...\" -- Minerva\u003cbr\u003e\"... a perceptive reading of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e... Readers who want to get a feeling for the poem will find Wilson’s translation full of insights...\" -- London Review of Books","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864541475159,"sku":"9780393089059","price":30.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393089059.jpg?v=1722272393"},{"product_id":"the-odyssey-9780393356250","title":"The Odyssey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s \"nimble gallop\" and brings an ancient epic to new life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The first version of Homer's groundbreaking work by a woman will change our understanding of it for ever... Emily Wilson’s crisp and musical version is a cultural landmark. Armed with a sharp, scholarly rigour, she has produced a translation that exposes centuries of masculinist readings of the poem.\" -- Charlotte Higgins, Poetry Book of the Day - The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"... Emily Wilson proves an appropriately beguiling female translator... This is certainly an \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e for our moment … [a] swift, unornamented text.\" -- The Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson’s \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e feels like a restoration of an old, familiar building that had over the years been encrusted with too much gilt. Wilson translates as though translation is a moral choice — you owe fidelity not to the author, nor to the protagonist, but to the truth behind the words and the times. She scrapes away at old encrusted layers, until she exposes what lies beneath.\" -- Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\"It is immensely satisfying to see \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e in the hands of such a careful and creative scholar who can pore over the semantic nuances of Homer's Greek as well as those of her own English. Considerations of gender aside, perhaps Wilson's greatest achievement is to disprove the increasingly held view that versions of ancient texts require an established poet to be parachuted in, like a literary James Bond, to rescue their English lines from the prosaic. For a translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e that knows what it is talking about and sings as it speaks, this is the one to read.\" -- New Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson’s approach has been to translate the text in a way that resonates with today’s politics. Her translation, spare and provocative, will engage a new generation of students.\" -- Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\"The real reason why Emily Wilson’s version of this nearly three-millennia-old poem is so important is that it combines intellectual authority with addictive readability.\" -- Edith Hall - The Sunday Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\"... Emily Wilson’s brilliant introduction to her new translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e shows the classical world as capable of feminist inflections.\" -- The Observer\u003cbr\u003e\"... a perceptive reading of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e... Readers who want to get a feeling for the poem will find Wilson’s translation full of insights...\" -- London Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson’s translation is a superb achievement and a striking departure from the tradition of Homeric translation into English... [She] has produced a wonderfully distinctive—and modern—version of the poem.\" -- London Evening Standard\u003cbr\u003e\"All the artistic choices work. I must admit when I heard we were reviewing \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, I thought ‘Oh no, it’s going to be wordy and dull’ […] but it wasn’t, it really felt fresh and alive and exciting.\" -- Sophie Hannah - BBC Radio 4, Saturday Review\u003cbr\u003e\"... Emily Wilson's terrific new translation...\" -- The i Paper\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Wilson wipes the dust of ages from Homer’s prose in her new translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e. Accessible and entertaining, she provides an elegant rendering of the classic.\" -- Peter Campbell, Favourite reads of 2017 - as chosen by scientists - The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"Now we have an excellent new translation of the epic by the British classicist Emily Wilson. Norton trumpets it as “the first English translation of the ‘Odyssey’ by a woman.”... But Wilson’s rendering is remarkable in other ways as well.\" -- The International New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"... a monumental piece of work on her part...\" -- Stig Abell - BBC Radio 4 Front Row\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Wilson... is the first woman to translate Homer's entire epic into English, and she has produced something extraordinary. In her hands, a work believed to have been written at around the end of the eighth century BC is transformed into something that might have been written yesterday: vivid, exciting and utterly immersive... her accessible and fascinating introduction explains the poem's origins and reception, and such crucial concepts as 'guest-friendship' (xenia).\" -- The Lady\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Wilson, […] whose translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e – the first translation by a woman, might I add – is currently destroying me, so it’s good. You can just tell from the way she writes and from her very ballsy interpretive translation that she’s got a wicked, daring mind, and a deeply poetic one.\" -- Hannah Epperson - Female First\u003cbr\u003e\"I thought this was just moving, it was musical, it was direct, it was straightforward […] anyone could read it and really, really enjoy it.\" -- Rosie Goldsmith - BBC Radio 4, Saturday Review\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece of translation—fluent, elegant, vigorous.\" -- Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\"As the first English translation of this ancient tale by a woman, this lively, fast-paced retelling of Homer’s epic is long overdue. Much as Homer did in his time, Wilson whisks the audience into a realm both familiar and fantastical. The world of Odysseus and his adventures take shape before the reader’s eyes, luminescent once more, in this engaging new translation.\" -- Justine McConnell, King's College London\u003cbr\u003e\"This will surely be the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e of choice for a generation.\" -- Lorna Hardwick, The Open University\u003cbr\u003e\"I am not quite sure why, but this instantly hot-wired me into tears.\" -- Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent\u003cbr\u003e\"I think this is a really significant literary moment.\" -- Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u003cbr\u003e\"Friends, believe the hype. This translation is a marvel!... The sheer energy of the iambic pentameter is revelatory. Her word choices! The rhythm and the politics so delicious, so alive. And the man is devious and quick and fit to bursting with arrogance and cunning. He's perfect. It's sublime.\" -- Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e translated by Emily Wilson. One of the great narratives of all time. You think you know it ? Not until you read this one. Stunning translation\/interpretation.\" -- Susan Hill\u003cbr\u003e\"Poetry that reads like a thriller.\" -- R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps series\u003cbr\u003e\"The new Emily Wilson translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e is brilliant and sharp and swift and funny and will repay the reader a thousand times over.\" -- Katherine Rundell\u003cbr\u003e\"... this new version of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e... is a fresh and worthwhile addition to the many existing translations, both for newcomers and veteran readers... Wilson offers a neat, accurate and lively verse translation...\" -- Minerva\u003cbr\u003e\"There are many other [other than being the first female translation] stunning things about Wilson’s translation, from the five-beat lines to the straightforward speech, free from the elegant clunkiness that we usually see when scholars try to carry words over from one language to another. But one of them is certainly an awareness of her own daring.\" -- Eidolon\u003cbr\u003e\"The real reason why Wilson’s version of this nearly three-millennia-old poem is so important is that, in delicate, five-foot iambics, it combines intellectual authority with truly addictive readability.\" -- The Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\"Utterly readable and gripping.\" -- Mail on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e\"I’m inordinately excited to read the first translation of a Homeric epic ever published by a woman.\" -- Imogen Russell Williams, Summer Books 2018 - Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\"This – the first English translation of Homer’s epic poem by a woman – is vivid, fresh and a genuine page-turner.\" -- Event’s 100 sizzling summer reads - Mail on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e into English, and her fine, plain language makes this ancient and compelling story hum with new life... Wilson is a brilliant companion on the decade-long journey to Ithaka's shores.\" -- Erica Wagner - Boat International\u003cbr\u003e\"A gorgeous take on an age old classic makes its mark.\" -- Book of the Month - The Bookseller\u003cbr\u003e\"... last year’s translation by Emily Wilson – the first complete English version by a woman – offers a fascinatingly fresh perspective on the poem, importing this ancient adventure to a whippy modern idiom while keeping a beady eye on centuries of inherited power dynamics in translation. “Tell me about a complicated man,” her translation begins, with the air of someone about to scrub the grime off an old painting. It’s fabulous stuff.\" -- Tim Martin, The Best Books About the Greek Islands - The Economist, 1843 Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\"I just reread \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e — the recent brilliant translation by Emily Wilson — while on Ithaca. I read it sitting on the very white pebbled shore on which Odysseus must have landed. Wonderful when both author and story are on the mysterious cusp of fact and fancy.   \" -- Michael Morpurgo - Mail Online\u003cbr\u003e\"The real reason this version of a nearly three-millennia-old poem is so important is that it has intellectual authority as well as truly addictive readability.\" -- Paperbacks to Read this Week - The Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\"... a fabulous new translation of which Emily Wilson has provided. An accessible and authoritative reading of the first great story of the western canon, it not only matches the number of lines of the original, but also its drama, musicality and pace.\" -- Philippa Joseph, Best History Books 2018 - History Today\u003cbr\u003e\" \u003cp\u003eScholarly and readable, this is an up-to-the-minute translation that sets some records straight.\u003c\/p\u003e \" -- William Wall, Irish Writers' Best of 2018 - The Independent\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e (WW Norton) is quite extraordinary... It is powerful and immensely readable... The translation of Homer for our times...\" -- Mark Mazower, Books of the Year 2019","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864547668311,"sku":"9780393356250","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393356250.jpg?v=1722272419"},{"product_id":"the-iliad-9780520281431","title":"The Iliad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDealing with western literature, this poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. It captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine translation, accurate and energetic.\" -- Thomas L. Cooksey Library Journal \"Taken as a whole this is the best line-for-line translation of the poem I know.\" -- Colin Burrow London Review of Books \"By \"preserving the strangeness\" of Homer, [Peter Green] gives the reader the fullest possible access to the ancient mind, into Homer's distant universe of wine-faced seas, god-like men and bronze skies.\" -- Kate Havard The Washington Free Beacon \"Translating Homer into English is almost a genre of its own... Is there still a gap in the market? Peter Green's new translation shows that there is... his particular merit lies in achieving a clarity and fluidity that carries the reader (or indeed the declaimer) forward... a notable achievement.\" -- Richard Jenkyns TLS \"Readers will learn a great deal about the Iliad from Green's detailed introduction and from comprehensive synopses of each book. A list summarizing the roles of main characters (Achilles to Zeus) and an index of names will benefit new readers as well as pros... Summing Up: Highly recommended.\" -- R. Cormier CHOICE \"Everything [in this book] is oriented towards helping us to understand the poem on its terms, and to appreciate its intricacy and subtlety, its grandeur and pathos, and its incomparable beauty.\" Claremont Review of Books \"Green shows the wonderful things that can happen when Homeric rhythms are combined with a free-flowing and naturalistic English.\" ARGO \"As reading Great Books migrates from the core of a college education to the margins, it's worth reflecting on just what students are missing and celebrating that there is a new addition to the Iliad family.\" National Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Abbreviations  Introduction  THE ILIAD  Synopsis Glossary Select Bibliography","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864894353751,"sku":"9780520281431","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520281431.jpg?v=1722273267"},{"product_id":"the-odyssey-9780520303362","title":"The Odyssey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Comparisons to [Emily] Wilson's recent translation are inevitable. . . . Both Wilson and Green capture the spirit of the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, but word-for-word, Green also captures a feel for the Homeric language, an experience closer to the original.\" * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"Green's intelligent translation is . . . a superb choice.\" * The Weekly Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\"Green brings to the poem the rhetorical directness and historical expertise which worked so well in his translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e. Speeches in his version are vigorous and direct. \" * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“The kind of absorption offered by Green’s translation seems particularly relevant to the reading of a poem from an alien culture and period. It contributes to the opening of the imagination that is surely one of the main pleasures of reading such a work. . . . 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The former tells of Achilles’ anger over an insult to his honor during the Trojan War, and of its consequences for the Achaeans, the Trojans, and Achilles himself.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865503215959,"sku":"9780674995796","price":23.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674995796.jpg?v=1722274280"},{"product_id":"iliad-9780872203525","title":"Iliad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is hard to overstate the attractions of this translation. In a rhythm sinewy and flexible, with language that is precise, lyrical and fresh, Lombardo's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e pulses with all the power and luminosity of the Greek. He shows extraordinary sensitivity to the images and aural effects of the ancient poem. There are brilliant touches on every page. . . . Altogether this is as good as Homer gets in English.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Richard P. Martin, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\"The most daring, rapid and colloquial translation of Homer's Iliad that I know. [Lombardo's] taut and punchy verse conveys admirably and accurately the excitement and desperation of the battle, the urgency of the commanders, the occasional flashes of humor, the passion of Homer's narrative and the vivid and subtle humanity of his characters.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Richard Janko, University College, London\u003cbr\u003e\"Lombardo's Iliad should be required for every History of Civilization class in America!\"\u003cbr\u003e —David R. 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In her extremely useful Introduction, Murnaghan lucidly summarizes and makes available for the student and general reader the results of complex scholarship on Homer, and she offers sensitive guidance for reading the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e as a work that documents the triumph of the human spirit and not merely as a war poem.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Leon Golden, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Accessible as Lombardo's translation is, it is rendered even more so by the superb Introduction by Sheila Murnaghan, which provides a rich but lucid discussion of the classical context of the epic. This handsome, superbly done \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e will be enjoyed by everyone. Highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e —T. F. Merrill, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Hackett Publishing Co, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866127905111,"sku":"9780872203525","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780872203525.jpg?v=1722277173"},{"product_id":"the-essential-homer-9780872205406","title":"The Essential Homer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelections from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A good idea—its utility far outweighs qualms purists have about students not reading every last item in the catalogue of ships. 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It offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.","brand":"Hackett Publishing Co, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866132590935,"sku":"9780872208995","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780872208995.jpg?v=1722277196"},{"product_id":"the-iliad-9781324001805","title":"The Iliad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson’s translation runs as swift as a bloody river, teems with the clattering sounds of war, bursts with the warriors’ hunger for battle\" -- Charlotte Higgins - The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson’s \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e is clear and brisk, its iambic pentameter a zone of enchantment. \" -- Ange Mlinko - London Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\"Superb... [a] beautiful, fluent, memorable translation\" -- Rowan Williams - New Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\"Seduce[s] with its crystalline clarity, elegance, sensuality, sometimes breathless pace and above all emotional clout.\" -- Edith Hall - The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"A triumphant new translation of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e... It's a poem you read with your heart in your throat. \" -- A. E. Stallings - The Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\"A propulsive road... an excellent translation\" -- Natalie Haynes - BBC Culture\u003cbr\u003e\"Sing, goddess, of the skill of Emily [Wilson].\" -- Robbie Millen - The Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Vitally urgent\" -- Judith Thurman - The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\"For the Greeks, Homer was the universal poet. He was likened to the ocean, circling the world, from which all cultural rivers flowed... Two thousand years later, those rivers still flow. Wilson can take much pride in her successful contribution to this mighty stream\" -- Peter Jones - The Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Wilson’s superb rendering of the Greek epic resounds with Miltonic echoes\" -- The Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Wilson's translation of the \"Iliad\" brings Homer's great war story to rousing new life....propulsive....buoyant and expressive. \" -- Natalie Haynes - The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"In Wilson's hands, the poem sings with the clash of bronze, the thundering of hooves, the savage holler of war-cries. Her use of iambic pentameter imbues it with irresistible pace and rhythm. It flows like music – exhilarating, tragic, beautiful and stirring\" -- Jennifer Saint - the i newspaper\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson is at her best when writing of the battlefield. As others have noted, she has a knack for the consonantal sounds of warfare… Wilson’s \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e is always to the point.\" -- Kate Maltby - Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson's translation is vivid, lucid, pacy... For those yet to encounter this violent, charming, disturbing, beautiful poem, now is the time.\" -- Katherine Backler - The Tablet\u003cbr\u003e\"Excellent... [Wilson] achieves a fluid and consistent vision.\" -- Philip Womack - Spectator World\u003cbr\u003e\"Wilson has forged a poetic style in English that captures the essence of Homeric Greek….Readable, relevant and from the heart, this is the “Iliad” we have all been waiting for, whether we knew it or not.”\" -- Naoíse Mac Sweeny - The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\"We should be grateful for Emily Wilson's luminous new translation of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e... 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If you are buying for a classicist or even for someone who's been meaning to get around to the classics, you won't go wrong with this one.\" -- Charlie Connelly - The New European\u003cbr\u003e\"A magisterial translation of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e... The story of the battle between Hector and Achilles in the Trojan War, of a city under siege, of innocents caught up in conflict, has never been more resonant or necessary.\" -- The Mail on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e\"In her new translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/em\u003e, Emily Wilson finds a fluid and readable idiom to depict the heroism, violence and vaingloriousness of Homer's Trojan War. Her rendering is more supple than sonorous, and both gods and men squabble, sulk, huff and puff with the breath of life, until it expires. \" -- Michael Prodger - Country Life","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866559689047,"sku":"9781324001805","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781324001805.jpg?v=1722279218"},{"product_id":"the-iliad-9781421406428","title":"The Iliad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis version of the Iliad is ideal for readings and performances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe energetic and rhythmic translation is quite faithful to the original. 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These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by classicist, writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes, author of \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Ships\u003c\/i\u003e and host of her own BBC Radio 4 show, \u003ci\u003eNatalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis, a Trojan prince, wins Helen as his prize for judging a beauty contest between three goddesses, and abducts her from her Greek husband Menelaos. The Greeks, enraged by his audacity, sail to Troy and begin a long siege of the city. \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad \u003c\/i\u003eis set in the tenth year of the war. Achilles – the greatest Greek warrior – is angry with his commander, Agamemnon, for failing to show him respect. He refuses to fight any longer, which is catastrophic for the Greeks, and results in personal tragedy for Achilles, too. 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The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic.\u003cbr\u003e Daniel Mendelsohn, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is hard to overstate the attractions of this translation. In a rhythm sinewy and flexible, with language that is precise, lyrical and fresh, Lombardo's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e pulses with all the power and luminosity of the Greek. He shows extraordinary sensitivity to the images and aural effects of the ancient poem. There are brilliant touches on every page. . . . Altogether this is as good as Homer gets in English.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Richard P. Martin, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\"The most daring, rapid and colloquial translation of Homer's Iliad that I know. [Lombardo's] taut and punchy verse conveys admirably and accurately the excitement and desperation of the battle, the urgency of the commanders, the occasional flashes of humor, the passion of Homer's narrative and the vivid and subtle humanity of his characters.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Richard Janko, University College, London\u003cbr\u003e\"Lombardo's Iliad should be required for every History of Civilization class in America!\"\u003cbr\u003e —David R. Wilson, Brigham Young University\u003cbr\u003e\"[R]emarkably true to the centrality of performance in Homer, the varied pacing and tone, the clarity, speed, narrative drive, and moments of breathtaking beauty.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003e\"Homer has been well served in recent years by good translators. But this reviewer predicts that the dominant translation for the 21st century will be this masterful version by Stanley Lombardo. . . . In her extremely useful Introduction, Murnaghan lucidly summarizes and makes available for the student and general reader the results of complex scholarship on Homer, and she offers sensitive guidance for reading the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e as a work that documents the triumph of the human spirit and not merely as a war poem.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Leon Golden, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Accessible as Lombardo's translation is, it is rendered even more so by the superb Introduction by Sheila Murnaghan, which provides a rich but lucid discussion of the classical context of the epic. This handsome, superbly done \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e will be enjoyed by everyone. Highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e —T. F. Merrill, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Hackett Publishing Co, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884881326423,"sku":"9780872203532","price":39.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780872203532.jpg?v=1722533886"},{"product_id":"odyssey-9780872204850","title":"Odyssey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanley Lombardo's translation of Homer's classic work aims to offer the distinctive speed and clarity of his other tranlations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The definitive English version of Homer for our time.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe Common Review: The Magazine of the Great Books Foundation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lombardo weaves his cherished idioms into important patterns of repetition and transformation so familiar to the telling of the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . Above all, such familiar phrases serve to remind us of the oral character of the original \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, providing the reader with an uncanny immediacy and relevance.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Christina Zwarg, \u003ci\u003eThe Bryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lombardo has the simple gift of summoning up a Homeric flavor wherever he turns. He may even blend contemporary colloquialisms with an antique epic grandeur, and the effect remains unimpaired. As Lombardo tells us, he recites and performs, he impersonates the poem as if he were the bard. We follow, we explore, plunging into 'medias res'. Homer arises before him as an encompassing reality. Lombardo moves at ease through this Homeric world, without artifice or rhetoric, attuning his verse to Homer's composition. Homer is here a vindication of poetry.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Paolo Vivante, McGill University\u003cbr\u003e\"Lombardo has created a Homeric voice for his contemporaries: fresh, quick, and verbally engaging to the modern ear, as the original was to the ancient. His characters come alive as real people expressing real feelings with urgency and verve. I very much like the language and the pace of this version, and would welcome it for classroom use.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Joseph Russo, Haverford College\u003cbr\u003e\"What could be finer \/ Than listening to a singer of tales \/ . . . with a voice like a god's?' So Odysseus on the bard Demodocus. And the singer, the oral poet, the 'aoidos', is what Lombardo embodies in his Homer. With a line and a language hammered out in public performance, he has made a verse that can move his audience to tears and even to laughter. At first glance, the simplicity startles—spare syntax, the highest proportion of short words in modern English poetry, colloquialism in the saddle, sudden and direct contact with the matter. But then the wonders of how he works become evident. So much was already to be seen\/heard in Lombardo's version of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e. But his \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond, its verse widening its range to everything in between tears and laughter, able to present a storm, a battle, a chiding, a fable, a tale, and a whine with equal deftness. No version of the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e is more immediate. No version shows better one of Homer's essentials: the oral poet at work. The persona is there, and it's real.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Douglass Parker, University of Texas at Austin\u003cbr\u003e\"Ever since the publication of Stanley Lombardo's extraordinary translation of the Iliad, we have been waiting eagerly for his \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, and it has been well worth the wait. Lombardo has done it again: he has rendered the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e into English just as accurate, as perspicuous, and as gripping as that in his Iliad. Students will probably be unable to resist reading it in great long chunks. Lombardo's translation is enhanced by Sheila Murnaghan's characteristically lucid and accurate introduction, which will be a boon to teachers of undergraduates (or even high school students).\"\u003cbr\u003e —John Kirby, Purdue University\u003cbr\u003e\"It sheds new light, guiding us through a psychology of language we understand in order to show us the shadows of something quite alien to contemporary, secular experience. The language is honed, so that event, object and emotion are revealed by a tone of voice, or a compressed stanza that draws out an essential element without the accompanying poetic distortions of romance. This translation delivers the goods without dallying in over-amplified academic considerations. Instead, the words retain a kind of artful weight, with the emotional stress intact.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eFirst Intensity Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Hackett Publishing Co, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884883554647,"sku":"9780872204850","price":39.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780872204850.jpg?v=1722533897"},{"product_id":"the-essential-homer-9780872205413","title":"The Essential Homer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelections from both \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A good idea—its utility far outweighs qualms purists have about students not reading every last item in the catalogue of ships. 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