The IliadForeword
Introduction
Introduction to the 1950 Edition
Notes on this Revision
The Main Characters
Further Reading
Maps:
1. A reconstruction of Homer's imagined battlefields
2. The Troad
3. Trojan places and contingents
4. Homeric Greece
5. Greek contingents at Troy
Preliminaries
The Iliad
1. Plague and Wrath
2. A Dream, a Testing and the Catalogue of Ships
3. A Duel and a Trojan View of the Greeks
4. The Oath is Broken and Battle Joined
5. Diomedes' Heroics
6. Hector and Andromache
7. Ajax Fights Hector
8. Hector Triumphant
9. The Embassy to Achilles
10. Diomedes and Odysseus: The Night Attack
11. Achilles Takes Notice
12. Hector Storms the Wall
13. The Battle at the Ships
14. Zeus Outmanoeuvred
15. The Greeks at Bay
16. The Death of Patroclus
17. The Struggle Over Patroclus
18. Achilles' Decision
19. The Feud Ends
20. Achilles on the Rampage
21. Achilles Fights the River
22. The Death of Hector
23. The Funeral and the Games
24. Priam and Achilles
Appendices
1. A Brief Glossary
2. Ommitted Fathers' Names
Index
Homer is thought to have lived c.750-700 BC in Ionia and is believed to be the author of the earliest works of Western Literature- The Odyssey and The Iliad. E V Rieu was a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek, and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-64. His son, D C H Rieu, has revised his work. Peter Jones is former lecturer in Classics at Newcastle. He co-founded the 'Friends of Classics' society and is the editor of their journal and a columnist for The Spectator.
“Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued
translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the
military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful
text rather than exotic relics.” –Atlantic Monthly
“Fitzgerald’s swift rhythms, bright images, and superb English make
Homer live as never before…This is for every reader in our time and
possibly for all time.”–Library Journal
“[Fitzgerald’s Odyssey and Iliad] open up once more the unique
greatness of Homer’s art at the level above the formula; yet at the
same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric
verse at the level of the line and the phrase.” –The Yale
Review
“What an age can read in Homer, what its translators can manage to
say in his presence, is one gauge of its morale, one index to its
system of exultations and reticences. The supple, the iridescent,
the ironic, these modes are among our strengths, and among Mr.
Fitzgerald’s.” –National Review
With an Introduction by Gregory Nagy
"Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued
translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the
military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful
text rather than exotic relics." -Atlantic Monthly
"Fitzgerald's swift rhythms, bright images, and superb English make
Homer live as never before...This is for every reader in our time
and possibly for all time."-Library Journal
"[Fitzgerald's Odyssey and Iliad] open up once more
the unique greatness of Homer's art at the level above the formula;
yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of
Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase." -The
Yale Review
"What an age can read in Homer, what its translators can manage to
say in his presence, is one gauge of its morale, one index to its
system of exultations and reticences. The supple, the iridescent,
the ironic, these modes are among our strengths, and among Mr.
Fitzgerald's." -National Review
With an Introduction by Gregory Nagy
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