WITHOUT THE TR0JAN HORSE YARN, FUTILITY OF WAR: 7/8: The Iliad by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator)

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WITHOUT THE TR0JAN HORSE YARN, FUTILITY OF WAR:  7/8: The Iliad by  Homer  (Author), Emily Wilson  (Translator)
https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/1324001

The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world―the fierce beauty of nature and the gods’ grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson’s hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem’s deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even “complicated,” characters―both human and divine.
The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity’s most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson’s Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.5 maps

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