Can I read Chapman's Homer: the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the lesser Homerica on EtoBox?

Chapman's Homer: the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the lesser Homerica by Edited, with introductions, textual notes, commentaries, and glossaries, by Allardyce Nicoll is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Chapman's Homer: the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the lesser Homerica about?

This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book. The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes lived—and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.

Author

Edited, with introductions, textual notes, commentaries, and glossaries, by Allardyce Nicoll

Publisher

[New York] Pantheon Books

Published

1956

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities