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172 of 174 people found the following review helpful
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This is the 1862-64 Derby plain prose translation of the Iliad.
I thought Kindle version would be terrible - I was totally wrong!
It is as absorbing, thought provoking and inspiring as ever.
If you want an "easy way to read the Iliad" without the pain of Pope's earlier "versified" version then I'd suggest you need look no further.
It isn't Dan Brown, but please, please give it a go. See if something written 2,500 years ago actually still talks to you across the years :)
I thought Kindle version would be terrible - I was totally wrong!
It is as absorbing, thought provoking and inspiring as ever.
If you want an "easy way to read the Iliad" without the pain of Pope's earlier "versified" version then I'd suggest you need look no further.
It isn't Dan Brown, but please, please give it a go. See if something written 2,500 years ago actually still talks to you across the years :)
125 of 129 people found the following review helpful
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This is indeed the translation by the Earl of Derby and the 1864 5th edition, but it is not plain prose. The Earl of Derby, at a time when he believed that classicism was already on the wane - how right he was - wanted to render Homer's poetry into a suitable English poetry but in a faithful rendering of Homer's original intent.
The language is therefore poetic and structured in what is called Heroic blank verse. The Earl makes this plain in the introduction and it can be seen in Google books where there is a facsimile.
In the translation, every new verse line begins with a capital letter - which have been retained in the 'translation' to Kindle e-edition, but the line breaks have been completely lost.
Instead, the text reads continuously Like prose but with embedded caps, as Demonstrated in this paragraph, caps showing Where the new lines were in the original. You may find this Spoils your enjoyment of the text?
There have obviously been many subsequent translations, much admired in several cases, but this one still has its merits as a muscular, rythmic and reasonably faithful servant of the original. And of course it is currently free
The language is therefore poetic and structured in what is called Heroic blank verse. The Earl makes this plain in the introduction and it can be seen in Google books where there is a facsimile.
In the translation, every new verse line begins with a capital letter - which have been retained in the 'translation' to Kindle e-edition, but the line breaks have been completely lost.
Instead, the text reads continuously Like prose but with embedded caps, as Demonstrated in this paragraph, caps showing Where the new lines were in the original. You may find this Spoils your enjoyment of the text?
There have obviously been many subsequent translations, much admired in several cases, but this one still has its merits as a muscular, rythmic and reasonably faithful servant of the original. And of course it is currently free
57 of 60 people found the following review helpful
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This is one of the best books ever published. I have read it numerous times and when it came to kindle it's was first on the download list. The book contains all the necessary elements of an epic, love, war and great in depth description of the battles. The book makes you feel as though your standing shoulder to shoulder with the kings of Greece. If you read only one book in your life it must be this.
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I am new to this sort of reading however after a difficult first chapter of learning and understanding the written verse, I have enjoyed the story and reading style very... Read more
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spot on does what it says and was delivered on time. Quality was great.
Exactly what you want when buying
Exactly what you want when buying
Published 7 months ago by Ozscot
Poorly formatted edition
Oh dear! Although this is an excellent translation, the formatting is execrable, with Capital letters appearing in the middle of a Paragraph (like this). Read more
Published 8 months ago by John Booklover
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In the spring of 1862 I was induced, at the request of some personal friends, to print, for private circulation only, a small volume of "Translations of Poems Ancient and Modern," in which was included the first Book of the Iliad.
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Of Peleus' son, Achilles, sing, O Muse, The vengeance, deep and deadly; whence to Greece Unnumbered ills arose; which many a soul Of mighty warriors to the viewless shades Untimely sent; they on the battle plain Unburied lay, a prey to rav'ning dogs, And carrion birds; but so had Jove decreed, From that sad day when first in wordy war, The mighty Agamemnon, King of men, Confronted stood by Peleus' godlike son.
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Chryseis and Briseis, allotted the first to Agamemnon, and the last to Achilles.
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