Pub Date: April 7, 2020
Dewey: 883.01
Lexile Code: 1330
Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.10" H x 6.10" L x 4.10" W ( 0.60 lbs) 544 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Classics | Fairy Tales Folk Tales Legends and Mythology
Description: A beautiful edition of Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, introduced by author and classicist Natalie Haynes.
Brief description: The identity of the composer of The Odyssey and The Iliad is a matter of some speculation. The ancients believed it was a bard called Homer, although they disagreed about biographical details. It was commonly thought that he lived on Chios, an island off the west coast of Turkey, some time between 1100 and 700 BC, probably closer to the latter. Traditionally portrayed as blind, he is said to have composed The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Homeric Hymns, a series of choral addresses to the gods.
Review Quotes:
"The final book of The Iliad has to be regarded, for my money, as the first great work in Western literature" --Ranjit Bolt, Guardian
"The granddaddy of all classics" --Luke Slattery, Sydney Morning Herald "All we read today would be unwritable without the 'love, ' 'death' and 'dark' that come to us in the first book of The Iliad" --The New York Times