num_pages: 683
description: This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy.
language: English
title: The Iliad
titlecomplete: The Iliad
characters: Paris, Ajax, Sarpedon (King of Lycia), Hecuba, Agamemnon, Aeneas, Hector of Troy, Menelaus, Akhilleus, Helen of Troy, Andromache, Cassandra, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Ajax Oileus, Odysseus, Diomedes, Nestor, Briseis
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, War, School, Greek Mythology, Historical Fiction, Literature, Mythology, Poetry
ratings_count: 434992
places: Troy
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Penguin Books