![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer’s poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad’s mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls “an astonishing performance.”įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.Ĭombining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. The great war epic of Western literature, in a stunning translation by acclaimed classicist Robert Faglesĭating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. ![]()
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