Homer

Broschiertes Buch

The Iliad

Beschreibung

A story that centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth and final year of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. It describes how the quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilleus sets in motion a tragic sequence of events, which leads to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determines the ultimate fate of Troy.

Autor

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

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 42418
• 1987.
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780140444445
• ISBN-10: 0140444440
• Artikelnr.: 11932353

Rezensionen

Much the best modern prose translation of the Iliad Robin Lane Fox Financial Times