The Iliad
By: Pope
Contributors: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, translator
Publisher: The Nonesuch press
Published: 1931
Place of publication: [London]
Language: grc; eng
Number of pages: 926
Subjects: Literatura Grega; Nonesuch Press
Description: The stirring story of the Trojan war and the rage of Achilles. A timeless, powerful poem conveys the horror and the heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as the tale moves to its terrifying, tragic conclusion.
Notes: At head of title: Homer.

"The Greek text of this edition is ... that of the Oxford classical texts. The English is printed from the first (1715) edition of Pope's Iliad. The ornaments have been designed, engraved and composed by and under the supervision of Rudolf Koch for this edition. It has been printed and made in Holland by Johannes Enschedé en zonen, Haarlem, in the Greek type of J. van Krimpen and monotype Cochin. There are 925 copies for sale in England, and 525 copies for sale in the United States by Random house."

This is number 124.

Greek and English on opposite pages.