The Twenty-second Book of the Iliad
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2018-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520966872 |
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green’s version, with its lyrical mastery and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to enjoy Homer’s epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition.
Author | : W. H. Auden |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2024-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 069121865X |
"The first critical edition of W. H. Auden's poetry collection The Shield of Achilles, which won the 1956 National Book Award in Poetry, this book will include the complete text of Auden's award-winning volume The Shield of Achilles, accompanied critical commentary by Alan Jacobs: a preface to provide historical and publishing context; a longer introduction to orient the reader to the poems themselves; and detailed notes on words or passages in need of clarification for contemporary readers. Jacobs, who has edited two previous critical editions of Auden's poetry, argues that this was the most important single collection of poems Auden published, and also the most coherent of his collections. The two poetic sequences, "Bucolics" and "Horae Canonicae," bookend a remarkable set of lyrics, with "The Shield of Achilles" itself at the heart. One of Auden's last long poems, it refers to moment in The Iliad in which Thetis, mother of Achilles, asks Hephaestus to forge a shield for her son. Auden re-imagines how the shield of Achilles would look in the modern age, when the rules of war and the role of the hero have been rewritten. While the volume was widely praised, it is now out of print (although the title poem is included in larger collections of Auden's poetry). A critical edition allows readers to better understand and appreciate one of Auden's most important later poetic works, written in what Jacobs describes as "a poetic idiom that differs quite significantly from what anyone else at the time was doing. . . . it is, in a vital sense, public poetry and it can be enjoyed, understood, and profited from. This edition is meant to make that enjoyment, understanding, and profit easier of access.""--
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2022-06-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3375039131 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-08 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : 9780981816289 |
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108594492 |
Book 18 of the Iliad is an outstanding example of the range and power of Homeric epic. It describes the reaction of the hero Achilles to the death of his closest friend, and his decision to re-enter the conflict even though it means he will lose his own life. The book also includes the forging of the marvellous shield for the hero by the smith-god Hephaestus: the images on the shield are described by the poet in detail, and this description forms the archetypal ecphrasis, influential on many later writers. In an extensive introduction, R. B. Rutherford discusses the themes, style and legacy of the book. The commentary provides line-by-line guidance for readers at all levels, addressing linguistic detail and larger questions of interpretation. A substantial appendix considers the relation between Iliad 18 and the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, which has been prominent in much recent discussion.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gareth Hinds |
Publisher | : Candlewick |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019-03-12 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 076368113X |
In a companion volume to his award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey, the incomparable graphic novelist Gareth Hinds masterfully adapts Homer’s classic wartime epic. More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer's legendary account of this nine-year ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this stunning graphic novel adaptation — a thoroughly researched and artfully rendered masterwork — renowned illustrator Gareth Hinds captures all the grim glory of Homer's epic. Dynamic illustrations take readers directly to the plains of Troy, into the battle itself, and lay bare the complex emotions of the men, women, and gods whose struggles fueled the war and determined its outcome. This companion volume to Hinds’s award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey features notes, maps, a cast of characters, and other tools to help readers understand all the action and drama of Homer's epic.
Author | : Lisa Morton |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2022-10-10 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1789142814 |
From Halloween expert Morton, a level-headed and entertaining history of our desire and attempts to hold conversations with the dead. Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism—when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the seance was born. Among our cast are the Fox sisters, teenagers surrounded by “spirit rappings”; Daniel Dunglas Home, the “greatest medium of all time”; Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose unlikely friendship was forged, then riven, by the afterlife; and Helen Duncan, the medium whose trial in 1944 for witchcraft proved more popular to the public than news about the war. The book also considers Ouija boards, modern psychics, and paranormal investigations, and is illustrated with engravings, fine art (from beyond), and photographs. Hugely entertaining, it begs the question: is anybody there . . . ?
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |