02981cam a2200529 i 4500 2439737507 TxAuBib 20250710120000.0 230801s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023525854 9781324001805 hbk. 1324001801 hbk. (OCoLC)1401575014 TxAuBib rda eng grc Homer, author. Iliad English (Wilson) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2023122179. The Iliad / Homer ; translated by Emily Wilson. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023] ©2023. lxxv, 761 pages : maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier cri rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [611]-711). 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. 20250710. In English; translated from Ancient Greek. Achilles (Mythological character) Poetry. Achilles (Mythological character.) fast Trojan War Poetry. Heroes Poetry. Heroes. fast Turkey fast Troy (Extinct city.) Epic poetry. lcgft Historical poetry. lcgft Poetry. lcgft Poetry. fast Epic poetry. fast Historical poetry. fast Wilson, Emily R., 1971-, translator.