Homer’s Iliad

Homer’s Iliad
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Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
Total Pages : 664
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ISBN-10 : 9781912992652
ISBN-13 : 1912992655
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Download or read book Homer’s Iliad written by Homer and published by CLAIRVIEW BOOKS. This book was released on 2025-05-05 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iliad presents superhuman heroes and superhuman rage, brutal death, unbounded sorrow, the craving for revenge, the shortness of life, the glory quest, and, ultimately, reconciliation and forgiveness. As human nature is unchanging, the Iliad’s themes concern us as much today as they did Homer’s audiences 2,700 years ago. Not for nothing did Ezra Pound observe that “a civilization was founded on Homer.” The Iliad is always relevant, even as it is timeless. Of interest to readers in every generation, it is a classic in the root sense. Homer was “the Bible of the Greeks.” He was their mythology and history (still fairly merged at the time), their religion, their storehouse of ethics and exempla under an Olympian dispensation. And while the Odyssey is the more popular of Homer’s epics, the Iliad is the more profound. This is not merely another new translation of Homer’s Iliad. It is sooner and foremost Homer’s Iliad in a Classical Translation – the first-ever into a consistently 12-syllable line and, at the same time, the longest such work in the English language (the Iliad consisting of 15,639 lines in Greek). This translation by Jeffrey M. Duban uses a mildly archaizing style and other poetic devices to suggest the antiquity and flavor of Homeric composition. Like the original, it is both alliterative and polysyllabic – excessive monosyllabism the scourge of many a modern translation. Duban further observes epic decorum with recourse to poetic diction. Decorum entails the avoidance of colloquialisms and commonplaces, again in contrast to other translations.


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