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The Iliad (Paperback)
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The Iliad (Paperback)
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The culmination of over 30 years of studying and thinking about
Homer, world renowned scholar and accomplished poet Barry Powell
has produced what one reviewer calls a "page turner, bound to
become the new standard." Powell's translation renders the Homeric
Greek with a simplicity and dignity reminiscent of the original.
Lucid and fast, the text immediately engrosses the reader, with a
tight and balanced rhythm that sings and with a closeness to the
original that allows the reader to hear the incantatory repetitions
in the Greek. More accessible than Lattimore, more poetic than
Lombardo, and more accurate than Fagles or Fitzgerald, this
translation is an excellent fit for today's students and general
readers. With swift, transparent language that rings both ancient
and modern, Barry Powell gives readers anew all of the rage,
pleasure, pathos, and humor that are Homer's Iliad. His clever
translation is simple and energetic: sometimes coarse, sometimes
flowing, it is always poetically engaged. Powell lays bare the
semantic background of Homer through felicitous phrasing and
delivers us a Dark-Age epic, one more suggestive of Norse sagas
than the cultural milieu of archaic Ionia. Both the translation and
the introduction are consistently informed by the best recent
scholarship. The illustrations are well chosen, the maps precise,
the notes brief but helpful.
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