The Iliad Av Homer

<p><b>Read this stunning translation of Homer''s great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of the city of Troy.</b><br><br><br>High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Greek ships decay, men languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a desperate people await the next turn of fate.<br><br><br>This is the Iliad: an ancient story of enduring power; magnetic characters defined by stirring and momentous speeches; a panorama of human lives locked in a heroic struggle beneath a mischievous or indifferent heaven. Above all, this is a tale of the devastation, waste and pity of war.<br><br><br>Caroline Alexander''s virtuoso translation captures the rhythms and energy of Homer''s original Greek while making the text as accessible as possible to a modern reader, a