Pub Date: October 1, 2012
Dewey: 883.01
LCCN: 2012002235
Lexile Code: 1330
Features: Bibliography
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.60" H x 9.10" L x 6.40" W ( 1.95 lbs) 552 pages
BISAC Categories:
Poetry | Ancient and Classical | Literary Criticism | Literary Collections | Ancient Classical and Medieval
Description: This magnificent new translation sets the highest standards for beauty, accuracy, and aliveness. Thanks to his scholarship and poetic power, which recreates the energy, simplicity, speed, grace, and continual thrust and pull of the original, "The Iliad"'s ancient story bursts vividly into new life and will reach an even larger audience of readers.
Brief description: Edward McCrorie is a poet and translator whose works include several collections of poems and an acclaimed translation of Virgil's Aeneid. He is also a professor of English at Providence College.
Review Quotes: [As] close to the original as is possible without reading the original Greek. It is refreshing, accurate, and direct.
--Bloomsbury Review