Title:
The Iliad / Homer ; originally translated by E.V. Rieu ; revised and updated by Peter Jones with D.C.H. Rieu ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Jones.
Author:
Homer, author.
Rieu, E. V. (Emile Victor), 1887-1972, translator.
Jones, P. V. (Peter V.), translator, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
Rieu, D. C. H. (D. Christopher H.), translator.
Publication Information:
London : Penguin Classics, 2014.
©2003.
Call Number:
PA4025.A2 R53 2014
Abstract:
Centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determines the fate of Troy. This book presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background.
ISBN:
9780141394657
Physical Description:
lxxxv, 462 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 1950.
Revised translation originally published: 2003.
A prose reworking of the Iliad.
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