Homer

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The Iliad (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic.

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• Größe: 1.43MB
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• Text-to-Speech
• Alle Inhalte über Screenreader oder taktile Geräte zugänglich
• Alle Texte können hinsichtlich Größe, Schriftart und Farbe angepasst werden
• Grundlegende Landmark-Navigation für einfache Orientierung
• ARIA-Rollen für verbesserte strukturelle Navigation
• Hoher Kontrast zwischen Text und Hintergrund (min. 4.5 =>1)
• Inhalte verständlich ohne Farbwahrnehmung
• Kurze Alternativtexte für nicht-textuelle Inhalte vorhanden
• Navigierbares Inhaltsverzeichnis für direkten Zugriff auf Text und Medien

Autor

Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time. Martin Hammond is headmaster of the Tonbridge School and has translated Homer's Iliad for Penguin Classics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1991
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781101153635
• Artikelnr.: 43592186