THE ILIAD. Translated, With An Introduction And Notes By Stephen Mitchell

Homer

ISBN 10: 1439163375 / ISBN 13: 9781439163375

Published by NY etc~.October 2011. Free Press / Simon & Schuster, 2011

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black & tan hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with red satin marker ribbon. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. red satin marker ribbon in mint cond. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). deckled foredge. lxiii+466p.+about the translator. double page b&w map. notes on the introductory sections. notes on the translation. notes on the greek text. pronouncing glossary. bibliography. ancient history. ancient literature. ancient greece. trojan war. mythology. ~ "Stephen Mitchell has done a marvelous thing here: he has given fresh energy and poetic force to a work that perennially repays our attention. Without the Iliad the West would be a vastly poorer place; Homer's achievement speaks to every successive generation with its unflinching understanding of the essential tragic nature of life. Mitchell's translation is a grand accomplishment." ~Jon Meacham, author of American Lion. TOLSTOY CALLED THE ILIAD A miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer's story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations haven't been able to re~create the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and pulsing rhythm of the original. In Stephen Mitchell's Iliad, the epic story resounds again across 2,700 years, as if the lifeblood of its heroes Achilles and Patroclus, Hector and Priam flows in every word. And we are there with them, amid the horror and ecstasy of war, carried along by a poetry that lifts even the most devastating human events into the realm of the beautiful. Mitchell's Iliad is the first translation based on the work of the preeminent Homeric scholar Martin L. West, whose edition of the original Greek identifies many passages that were added after the Iliad was first written down, to the detriment of the music and the story. Omitting these hundreds of interpolated lines restores a dramatically sharper, leaner text. In addition, Mitchell's illuminating introduction opens the epic still further to our understanding and appreciation. Now, thanks to Stephen Mitchell's scholarship and the power of his language, the Iliad's ancient story comes to moving, vivid new life.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE ILIAD. Translated, With An Introduction And Notes By Stephen Mitchell
• Publisher: NY etc~.October 2011. Free Press / Simon & Schuster
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1439163375
• ISBN 13: 9781439163375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • ancient history
  • mythology
  • poetry

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TOLSTOY CALLED THE ILIAD A miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer’s story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations haven’t been able to re-create the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and pulsing rhythm of the original.

In Stephen Mitchell’s Iliad, the epic story resounds again across 2,700 years, as if the lifeblood of its heroes Achilles and Patroclus, Hector and Priam flows in every word. And we are there with them, amid the horror and ecstasy of war, carried along by a poetry that lifts even the most devastating human events into the realm of the beautiful.

Mitchell’s Iliad is the first translation based on the work of the preeminent Homeric scholar Martin L. West, whose edition of the original Greek identifies many passages that were added after the Iliad was first written down, to the detriment of the music and the story. Omitting these hundreds of interpolated lines restores a dramatically sharper, leaner text. In addition, Mitchell’s illuminating introduction opens the epic still further to our understanding and appreciation.

Now, thanks to Stephen Mitchell’s scholarship and the power of his language, the Iliad’s ancient story comes to moving, vivid new life.

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HardCover. Pub Date: October 2011 Pages: 544 Publisher: Free Press A Classic of Western literature was for three Millennia. Homer's Iliad captivates modern Readers-AS IT DID ancient the Listeners-with its tale of gods And warriors at the Siege of Troy. Now Herbert Jordan's line-for-line translation illiantly renders the original Greek into English blank verse-the poetic form most closely resembling our spoken language.Raising the bar set by Richmond Lattimore in 1951. Jordan employs a pleasing five-beat meter and avoids unnecessary filler. The result. an economical translation. captures the force and vigor of the original poem.E. Christian Kopff's introduction to this volume sets the stage and credits Jordan with conveying the action and movement of the Iliad in contemporary language and a supple verse. This new Iliad offers twenty-first-century readers the thrill of a timel...