| ISBN |
9781529015003 (hardback) |
| 1529015006 (hardback) |
| Classification |
883.01 HOM |
| Personal Name |
Homer |
| Uniform Title |
Iliad. |
| Title |
The Iliad / Homer ; translated by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers ; with an introduction by Natalie Haynes. |
| Edition |
Complete & unabridged. |
| Production & Copyright Details |
London : Macmillan Collector's Library, 2020. |
| Physical Description |
xii, 529 pages ; 16 cm. |
| Content type |
text |
| Series |
Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Note |
This edition first published 2003 by Collector's Library. |
| Translated from the Ancient Greek. |
| Summary Note |
Paris, a Trojan prince, wins Helen as his prize for judging a beauty contest between three goddesses, and abducts her from her Greek husband Menelaos. The Greeks, enraged by his audacity, sail to Troy and begin a long siege of the city. The Iliad is set in the tenth year of the war. Achilles -- the greatest Greek warrior -- is angry with his commander, Agamemnon, for failing to show him respect. He refuses to fight any longer, which is catastrophic for the Greeks, and results in personal tragedy for Achilles, too. With themes of war, rage, grief and love, The Iliad remains powerful and enthralling more than 2,700 years after it was composed. |
| Subject-Personal Name |
Achilles(Mythological character)Poetry |
| Subject - Topical Term |
Trojan War -- Poetry |
| Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English |
| Added Entry - Personal Name |
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 translator. |
| Leaf, Walter, 1852-1927 translator. |
| Myers, Ernest, 1844-1921 translator. |
| Haynes, Natalie writer of introduction. |
