Книга «Iliad, the (HB)». Издательство: Macmillan. Год выпуска: 2020. Серия: Macmillan Collectors Library’. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 532. Автор: Homer. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Homer’s Odyssey is the ancient Greek tale of Odysseus and his eventful voyage home after the Trojan War,The hero and his crew escape a man-eating Cyclops and, having angered the sea-god Poseidon, are then beset by storms and blown to an island where a witch transforms the sailors into pigs.With his fleet destroyed, Odysseus is held captive for seven years’by the nymph Calypso, who offers him immortality if he will stay with her. But the desire to return to his loving wife, Penelope, is too strong and Odysseus determines to reach his home at Ithaca. His many adventures are the subject . of this famous prose translation by Т.Е. Lawrence, У which was the first to be aimed at a general readership.

A cornerstone of Western literature, Homer’s Iliad is the epic tale of the siege of Troy.After nine years, the Greeks are still fighting to reclaim the beautiful Helen and it is hardly the time for their supreme warrior, Achilles, to drop out of the war. But he does, in revenge against the overlord Agamemnon for seizing his concubine, Briseis.Only the death of his best friend, Patroclus, persuades Achilles to return to battle and confront the Trojan leader Hector in single combat.This edition features an accessible prose translation by the classical scholar and novelist Samuel Butler, first published in 1898.