Research Catalog

Title

The Iliad / Homer ; translated by Emily Wilson.

Author

Homer

Publication

• New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Wilson, Emily R., 1971-

Description

lxxv, 761 pages : maps, genealogical tables; 24 cm

Summary

• Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia.
• The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, The New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of the first great Homeric epic: The Iliad. In Wilson's hands, this exciting and often horrifying work now gallops at a pace befitting its battle scenes, roaring with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors and the anguished cries of dying men. Wilson's unadorned but resonant language plumbs the poem's profound pathos and reveals its characters as palpably real, even "complicated", human beings. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homer's poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.

Uniform Title

Iliad. English (Wilson)

Alternative Title

Iliad.

Subject

• Achilles (Mythological character) > Poetry
• Achilles (Mythological character)
• Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
• Trojan War > Poetry
• Heroes > Poetry
• Epic poetry, Greek > Translations into English
• Epic poetry, Greek

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Translations
• Epic poetry.
• Historical poetry.
• Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Contents

Introduction -- Translator's note -- Maps -- The quarrel -- The multitude -- Gifts of the goddess -- First blood -- Gods on the battlefield -- Price of honor -- A duel -- The scales tip -- The embassy -- Espionage by night -- Wounds -- The wall -- The waves -- An afternoon nap -- Fire at the ships -- Love and death -- Battle for a dead man -- Divine armor -- A meal before dying -- The warrior's return -- The river -- A race to death -- Funeral games -- A time to mourn -- Notes -- Genealogies -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments.

Call Number

JFE 23-3197

ISBN

• 9781324001805
• 1324001801

OCLC

1401575014

Author

Homer, author.

Title

The Iliad / Homer ; translated by Emily Wilson.

Publisher

New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Added Author

Wilson, Emily R., 1971- translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 23-3197