num_pages: 588
description: Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter lossand crowded brave souls into the undergloom, leaving so many dead men-carrionfor dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.-Lines 1-6Since it was first published, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that makes Homer live as never before (Library Journal).This edition includes a new foreword by Andrew Ford.
language: English
title: The Iliad
titlecomplete: The Iliad
characters: Menelaus, Helen of Troy, Briseis, Cassandra, Odysseus, Achilles, Sarpedon (King of Lycia), Ajax, Agamemnon, Priam, Nestor, Andromache, Akhilleus, Hecuba, Paris, Aeneas, Patroclus, Diomedes, Ajax Oileus, Hector of Troy
genres: Mythology, Historical Fiction, School, Greek Mythology, Poetry, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, War, Fiction
ratings_count: 434983
places: Troy
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Farar, Straus & Giroux