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by Homer (Author)
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  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: Chicago University Press (1 Jul 1961)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0226469409
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226469409
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a master Translation!!, 8 Dec 2000
This is not only an excellent literary translation, but a brilliant aid when studying the Iliad in the original Greek. Lattimore's idioms are brilliant, and he manages to beautifully render tortuous passages of Greek both faithfully and dramatically into english.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book changed my major and made me a classicist., 7 Aug 1998
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I found Latimore's language so powerful and evocative of Homer's world that I decided to study Ancient Greek. His insights were so keenly borne out in my experience of studying Greek that I became a college Classics Major the following year. He is meticulous in translating the same phrase the same way each time he meets it in the text and so the haunting echoes of previous uses resound in your ear like music.
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Richmond Lattimore's translation of the Iliad is easily the best I have ever read. The language and construction of the verses are probably as close as you can get to the original greek and still have reasonable readability in modern english. An excellent companion to the original greek too. The only let down is that there isn't a good critcal essay collection attached, but maybe I am being greedy asking for that too!

I would instantly recommend this to any reader whether for study or pleasure, an excellent translation of a stupendue epic.

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