Homer

Gebundenes Buch

The Iliad

Homer's Greek Epic with Selected Writings

Beschreibung

¿The Iliad¿ is Homer's legendary account of the Trojan War, an epic battle that took place over three thousand years ago and had a significant impact on world history. So significant was the war that it led to the invention of the phonetic alphabet as a means to record the great conflict. Homer's chronicle of the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek states is considered to be the greatest war story ever told and numbers amongst the most important works of Western literature. This fantastic 1898 translation by Samuel Butler is a must-read for lovers of literature and history alike, and would make for a worthy addition to every bookshelf. Contents include: ¿Homer, an Introduction by John Henry Wright¿, ¿To Homer, a Poem by John Keats¿, ¿Translations, by Rev. W. Lucas Collins¿, ¿The Iliad¿, "Homer's Illiad, an Excerpt by D. J. Snider" and "The Age of Homer, an Excerpt by Goldwin Smith".

Autor

Homer is the name ascribed by the Ancient Greeks to the semi-legendary author of the two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the central works of Greek literature. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. The modern scholarly consensus is that these traditions do not have any historical value.The importance of Homer to the ancient Greeks is described in Plato's Republic, where he is referred to as the protos didaskalos, "first teacher", of tragedy, the hegemon paideias, "leader of learning" and the one who ten Hellada pepaideuken, "has taught Greece". Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds. Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds in Egypt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wine Dark Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9781528770279
• ISBN-10: 1528770277
• Artikelnr.: 62891996