Iliad of Homer 1st Edition

A new translation of a poem is a new poem--and a poet in a new translation can at times appear with all the excitement and surprise that attend the appearance of a new poet. This can happen if, and only if, the translator has studied all those qualities, both technical and emotional, which make the poet what he is. This translation by Richmond Lattimore is designed to re-create in English the essential qualities of the first and greatest European epic. It is a line by line rendering, in which the Greek hexameters are represented by free-running lines of six beat verse, preserving the repeated line and fixed epithet....