{"product_id":"the-iliad-of-homer","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.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48602213449933,"sku":"9780226470498","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_be18e7cb-7c0a-4acc-a88b-ac2b7171b36d.jpg?v=1784492808","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-iliad-of-homer","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}