Homer

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest...

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts...

The great legacy of The Iliad is its shattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....

"In classical Greece men called rhapsodes memorized and recited “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” My own rhapsode is the English actor Dan Stevens, whom fans of “Downton Abbey” will know as Matthew Crawley. He’s been performing the Robert Fitzgerald translation, and no Hellene could...

Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....

This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF containing Notes on the...

Poème épique de l’Antiquité, L’Odyssée s’ouvre par l’invocation à la Muse et chante les maux innombrables du divin Ulysse, en proie aux longues épreuves du retour depuis la ville sacrée de Troie.

The Iliad concerns events during the 10th and final year in the siege of the city of Troy by the ancient Greeks....

A landmark new translation of Homer’s most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, Bomber's Moon and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness...

The Odyssey tells of the heroic journey of Odysseus after the Trojan war....

Dating to the ninth century BC, Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned...

The Trojan War is over and Odysseus, the cunning King of Ithaca, sets out for home....

Have you ever wondered why the rage of one man could determine the fate of an entire civilization? The Iliad is the ultimate examination of human nature under the duress of conflict.

Having spent ten years fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus embarks on his journey back to Ithica....

一○年にわたるトロイア戦争が終結．オデュッセウスは，帰国の途中嵐に襲われ，さらに一○年の漂流冒険ののち，神々の援けを得て二○年ぶりに帰還，留守の間妻を苦しめていた悪逆な求婚者たちを討ち亡ぼす．『イリアス』とともにヨーロッパ文学の源泉と仰がれる，劇的な盛り上りに満ちた大英雄叙事詩．

一○年にわたるトロイア戦争の末期，物語は，激情家で心優しいギリシア軍第一の勇将アキレウスと王アガメムノンの，火を吐くような舌戦で始まる．トロイア軍の総大将ヘクトル，アキレウスの親友パトロクロス，その敵討ちに奮戦するアキレウスら，勇者たちの騎士道的な戦いと死を描いた大英雄叙事詩．

The heroic story of the siege of Troy is as enthralling today as it ever was.

The first of Homer's great epic poems, the Iliad portrays the final days of the Trojan war....