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Homer's Iliad: Translated by William Guy
The brutal wrath of Akhilleus and what follows from it. The Ur-text and the Ur-tragedy of Western literature. Homer's ILIAD is both the simplest and also the most complex and beautiful poem ever written about war and about those who engage in it. War's pity, war's desolation, war's stupidity and (some would say) war's glory. A mirror of human conduct. A necessary primer for statesmen. The cautionary image of what it means to send young people off to war and have them blow each other to pieces. Homer's epic newly translated from the Greek.
576 pages, Hardcover
Published January 29, 2015
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