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The Iliad of Homer by Lattimore, Richmond is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Iliad of Homer about?
<p>"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the <i>Iliad</i> in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.<br> <br> This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's <i>Iliad</i> is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the <i>poem</i> as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—w
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lattimore, Richmond
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226470481
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, History, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (284 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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