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The Iliad
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Product Description
This great epic of ancient Greece is the story of fifty crucial days from the ten-year duration of the Trojan War.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #443586 in Books
- Published on: 1995-09
- Released on: 1999-10-25
- Formats: Abridged, Audiobook
- Original language: Greek
- Binding: Audio CD
Editorial Reviews
Review
'Mueller deserves full praise for treating one of the most influential and jealously guarded texts in Western culture with an enlivening and communicative intelligence' - Critical Quaterly. 'It is the best single work on the poem that I know... Mueller has a genius for explaining important and subtle aspects of Homer with a clarity that should make the study available even to readers who know very little about Homer' - George De F. Lord, Yale University.
About the Author
The Greeks attributed both the Iliad and the Odyssey to a single poet whom they named Homer. Nothing is known of his life, though the main ancient tradition made him a native of the island of Chios in east Aegean. His date too is uncertain: most modern scholars place the composition of the Iliad in the second half of the eighth century BC. Martin Hammond has taught in England and in Greece. He has also translated the Odyssey. He is now Headmaster of Tonbridge School
