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ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY

Book number: 30617 Product format: Paperback Author: GEORGE CHAPMAN

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Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questions about mortality and identity that Homer's heroes ask, the bonds of love, respect and fellowship that motivate them, have gripped audiences for three millennia. Chapman's Iliad and Odyssey are great English epic poems, but they are also two of the liveliest and most readable translations of Homer. Poetry is driven by the excitement of the Renaissance discovery of classical civilisation as at once vital and distant. 976pp. Paperback.

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ISBN 9781840221176
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