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I studied Homer intensively as a student, did research on him and taught about him when I was working as a classicist, but this was actually the first time that I read the Iliad in my armchair instead of at my desk surrounded by learned commentaries and the first time that I allowed myself to go with the flow of the story and enjoy it for its own sake without frantically digging into every single detail. Reading the 552 OCT pages of stunningly fresh Greek like this was a breathtaking and extreme...
Greatest epic ever written. A guy's book. Terrific on all levels. A must read by anyone who claims to be educated.
Simply brilliant. In the second half of Homer's epic The Iliad we see the wrath (incidentally, "wrath" is the very first word that opens the epic-poem) of Achilles on full display - and indeed it is mighty and many a knee it will have a-quaking. After Hector slays many an Achaean, especially Achilles' dearly beloved Patroclus, the son of Peleus (Achilles) is stirred into action and the whole tide of the war turns against the Trojans. For example, towards the end of the tale, Achilles says, “….bu...
Enjoyed it, but it didn’t end like I expected.
The scene where Priam begs Achilles for Hector's body back is unbeatable in ancient literature.
This book is a bit of a slog to get through but the translation flows well especially if read out aloud.
Edição excelente
A tradução plenipotente feita por Haroldo de Campos traz o texto direto do futuro grego de XIII aec, com um ritmo vertiginoso que faz as centenas de personagens de Thomas Pynchon parecerem dezenas, e envergonham qualquer cineasta gore por falta de sangue.
Reading the Iliad in Greek has been one of my life's goals. Now, after almost two years, I have completed the task! It has been an immensely rewarding experience. It will feel strange not to read my daily page each morning--the only remedy is to start re-reading the Odyssey!The second half of the Iliad is where the most familiar parts of the story take place. Achilles still refuses to fight, so his boon companion Patroclus borrows his armor to inspire the men. He is successful for a time, but ev...
Review originally posted at warmdayswillnevercease.wordpress.comBeginning with an evocation of the Muses, the Iliad is a tale of war, pride, and fate. It’s a classic story which never seems to age, no matter how many times it is translated and reimagined. I don’t think I have much to say about the plot except that I enjoyed it. It had everything I love; Greek mythology, pseudo-history, and homoerotic subtext. Homer, whoever that was, focuses on a few weeks during the final year of the Trojan War...
Finally finished re-reading the Iliad. I can't really add much to my review of the first half; although the later books have somewhat less stereotyped fighting and more of the pathos of Patrocles and Achilles, Hector, and Priam (and the comic relief of the fighting between the gods and godesses). I'm going to try to go on to read the Odyssey after I finish a few other projects; I've never read that in the original (my third time for the Iliad) and I want to do it while my Greek is still in my me...
Any translation of Greek epic into English must suffer considerably, as the English language is ill-suited to the melody and vigor of Homeric or Attic Greek. That being said, a translator may yet save himself by imparting his poetry with a flowing lyricism and appropriate dignity to instill something of the original; Philip Stanhope Worsley achieves this feat and more in his translation of The Iliad.To improve flow within his stanzas, Worsley eschews heroic couplets in favor of the Spenserian so...
I have read Homer before but reread it recently to rediscover the wonder of the Greeks and Trojans, Achilles, Agamemnon and Hector. It is a delight to wonder at the Gods and mortals and the role of fate in their enterprise. This mythic epic still speaks to us more than twenty-five hundred years after it first began to be recited by the poet Homer. After withstanding the rage of Achilles, the Greeks go up against the Trojans led by Achilles friend Patroclus. But, fate has decreed and with Apollo'...
Second volume of The Iliad, -one of my favourite epics-, containing Books 13-24. A very good edition of the Greek text with critical apparatus by David B. Monro and Thomas W. Allen, who, besides this, wrote the introduction and the index (in Latin, as is customary in this Oxford scholarly editions).
A little drier than the Odyssey in my opinion, but still decent reading material for a lazy week.This is not quite the version I read.
