The Iliad
Published on 30. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-0-19-992586-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
comprehensive and authoritative ... user friendly ... This generous scholarly gift will be joined by Powell's forthcoming Odyssey (2014) ... Highly recommended. * R. Cormier, CHOICE *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
862 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-992586-5 (9780199925865)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Persons
Barry B. Powell is the Halls-Bascomb Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Powell is one of the world's leading Homer scholars. In HOMER AND THE ORIGIN OF THE GREEK ALPHABET (Cambridge, 1991) he advanced the radical thesis that the Greek alphabet was designed specifically to record the text of Homer, a thesis that has now been widely accepted by the scholarly community and was the subject of a conference in Berlin in 2008. In 2009 he published his own Greek edition of the poems, ILIAS, ODYSSEY (Chester River Press), to accompany Alexander Pope's translation of the poems.
Powell is one of the world's leading Homer scholars. In HOMER AND THE ORIGIN OF THE GREEK ALPHABET (Cambridge, 1991) he advanced the radical thesis that the Greek alphabet was designed specifically to record the text of Homer, a thesis that has now been widely accepted by the scholarly community and was the subject of a conference in Berlin in 2008. In 2009 he published his own Greek edition of the poems, ILIAS, ODYSSEY (Chester River Press), to accompany Alexander Pope's translation of the poems.
Content
Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Maps ; Book 1: The Anger of Achilles ; Book 2: False Dream and the Catalog of Ships ; Book 3: A Duel to the Death ; Book 4: Trojan Treachery, Bitter War ; Book 5: The Glory of Diomedes ; Book 6: Hector and Andromache Say Goodbye ; Book 7: The Duel Between Hector and Ajax ; Book 8: Zeus Fulfills his Promise ; Book 9: The Embassy to Achilles ; Book 10: The Exploits of Dolon ; Book 11: The Glory of Agamemnon and The Wounding of the Captains ; Book 12: Attack on the Wall ; Book 13: The Battle at the Ships ; Book 14: Zeus Deceived ; Book 15: Counterattack ; Book 16: The Glory of Patroklos ; Book 17: Fight Over the Corpse of Patroklos ; Book 18: The Shield of Achilles ; Book 19: Agamemnon's Apology ; Book 20: The Dual Between Achilles and Ajax ; Book 21: Fight with the River; Battle of the Gods ; Book 22: The Killing of Hector ; Book 23: The Funeral of Patroklos ; Book 24: The Ransom of Hector ; LIST OF FIGURES ; 1.1.The anger of Achilles ; 1.2. The taking of Briseis ; 2.1. Nestor ; 2.2. A typical Greek warship ; 2.3. Lapiths and Centaurs ; 3.1. Helen and Priam ; 3.2. The duel of Menelaos and Paris ; 4.1. Lion hunt dagger ; 4.2 Greek against Greek ; 5.1. Aeneas wounded ; 5.2. Ares ; 5.3. Spring ; 6.1. Bellerophon ; 6.2. Hector and Andromache ; 7.1. Hector fights Ajax ; 8.1. Zeus ; 8.2. Trojan war scene ; 9.1. Embassy to Achilles ; 9.2. Achilles and Ajax play dice ; 10.1. Mycenaean armor ; 10.2. Capture of Dolon ; 10.3. Slaying of Rhesus ; 11.1. Gorgon ; 11.2. Cup of Nestor ; 11.3. Cheiron ; 12.1. Trojan and Greek fighting ; 13.1. Poseidon and chariot ; 13.2. Poseidon as Kalchas ; 14.1. Hera and Zeus ; 14.2. Hector and Ajax ; 15.1. Arming of Hector ; 15.2. Ajax defends the ships ; 16.1. Patroklos and Achilles ; 16.2. Death of Sarpedon ; 16.3. Kebriones ; 17.1. Euphorbos ; 17.2. fight over Patroklos ; 18.1. Thetis consoles Achilles ; 18.2. Peleus and Thetis ; 18.3 arms of Achilles ; 19.1. presentation of arms ; 19.2. Achilles and Briseis ; 19.3. Achilles' horses ; 20.1. Achilles ; 20.2. Zeus and Ganymede ; 21.1. Scamander river ; 21.2. Apollo and Artemis ; 22.1. Achilles and Hector ; 22.2. Achilles drags Hector ; 23.1. Trojan captives ; 23.2. Funeral games of Patroklos ; 24.1. Judgment of Paris ; 24.2. Achilles and Priam