A list summarizing the roles of main characters (Achilles to Zeus) and an index of names will benefit new readers as well as pros. a notable achievement." -Richard Jenkyns TLS "Readers will learn a great deal about the Iliad from Green's detailed introduction and from comprehensive synopses of each book. his particular merit lies in achieving a clarity and fluidity that carries the reader (or indeed the declaimer) forward. Is there still a gap in the market? Peter Green’s new translation shows that there is. Cooksey Library Journal "Taken as a whole this is the best line-for-line translation of the poem I know." -Colin Burrow London Review of Books "By “preserving the strangeness” of Homer, gives the reader the fullest possible access to the ancient mind, into Homer’s distant universe of wine-faced seas, god-like men and bronze skies." -Kate Havard The Washington Free Beacon "Translating Homer into English is almost a genre of its own. Reviews "A fine translation, accurate and energetic." -Thomas L.
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