num_pages: 391
description: Pope spent his formative years as a poet translating Homer, beginning with "The Iliad", his translation of which Samuel Johnson called "the greatest version of poetry the world has ever seen". This edition makes available for the first time in paperback Pope's notes in their entirety, enabling us to listen in as one poetic genius illuminates the work of another.
language: English
title: The Iliad
titlecomplete: The Iliad
characters: Helen of Troy, Ajax Oileus, Priam, Akhilleus, Hector of Troy, Diomedes, Nestor, Odysseus, Agamemnon, Andromache, Cassandra, Menelaus, Achilles, Hecuba, Paris, Sarpedon (King of Lycia), Ajax, Patroclus, Aeneas, Briseis
genres: Literature, Classics, School, Mythology, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Greek Mythology, Fantasy
ratings_count: 435072
places: Troy
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Barnes & Noble