In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our century by the distinguished poet and classicist Robert Fitzgerald, whose version of The Iliad does justice in every way to the fluent vigor and gravity of the Homeric original.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 03/10/1992
ISBN: 9780679410751
Pages: 616
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.28w x 1.33d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 12787 / Iliad
Reading Level: 11.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 25