Description
Set in the final days of the Trojan War, Homers poem recounts a formative moment in not only Greek culture, but in that of the West as a whole. W.C. Bryants verse translation has been acclaimed for over a century, rendering Homers hexameter into the epic metre of our own manly and flexible tongue. In Bryants sublime blank verse, Homers winged words take flight, never surpassed but in the Greek for grace and power.
In his foreword, Ricardo Duchesne makes clear that Iliad is something more than an expression of a generic human conditionit is an expression of a distinctly and uniquely Indo-European aristocratic warrior ethos. Moreover, as he shows, Homers poem represents a watershed moment in the emergence of consciousness itself, laying the foundation for the astonishing cultural efflorescence of classical Greece.
As part of Imperium Press Western Canon series, this definitive edition offers supplementary material placing this work at the centre of our aesthetic, intellectual, and spiritual lifewhere it belongs. This edition of Iliad includes a map, genealogies, a full glossary of every name in the text, and a bibliography with a view to traditionalist readings.
Author: Homer
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Imperium Press
Published: 09/21/2019
Series: Western Canon
Pages: 626
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.39d
ISBN: 9780648690504
Language: English
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