The Iliad and The Odyssey Boxed Set
  • Published: 1 November 1999
  • ISBN: 9780147712554
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 1264
  • RRP: $79.99
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The Iliad and The Odyssey Boxed Set

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Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.
  • Published: 1 November 1999
  • ISBN: 9780147712554
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 1264
  • RRP: $79.99
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The Iliad and The Odyssey Boxed Set
Homer

About the author

Homer

Homer, name traditionally assigned to the author of the ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY, the two major epics of Greek antiquity. Nothing is known of Homer as an individual, and in fact it is a matter of controversy whether a single person can be said to have written both the ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY. Linguistic and historical evidence, however, suggests that the poems were composed in the Greek settlements on the west coast of Asia Minor sometime in the 8th century BC.

Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.

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