Product Description
This is perhaps the definitive modern translation of the Iliad by Homer, translated for the Penguin Classics edition by E.V Rieu, and first published in 1952. This book was originally issued as a paperback, but consumer demand meant that Penguin subsequently issued the translation as a hardback bound edition .This is a Book Club Associates ( BCA) reprint edition 1973. Complete and unabridged.
Small closed 1 cm tear to lower edge of front dustjacket, previous owners name ( neatly) to blank front endpaper) otherwise unmarked.
'The first great book, and the first great book about the suffering and loss of war' Guardian
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, who refuses to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, he storms back into battle to take revenge - knowing this will ensure his own early death.
E. V. Rieu's acclaimed translation of The Iliad was one of the first titles published in Penguin Classics, and now has classic status itself.
