The Iliad / Homer ; originally translated by E.V. Rieu ; revised and updated by Peter Jones with D.C.H. Rieu ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Jones.

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Homer [author.]

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Material type: Text

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unmediated

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volume

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9780141394657
014139465X

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PA4025.A2 R53 2014

Summary: Centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determines the fate of Troy. This book presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background.

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Originally published: 1950.

Revised translation originally published: 2003.

A prose reworking of the Iliad.

Centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determines the fate of Troy. This book presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background.

1330L Lexile.

Accelerated Reader AR UG 11.3 25 12787.

Translated from the Ancient Greek.

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