Description
Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast while listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, and Achilles dragging Hector’s body around the walls of Troy are scenes from Homer that have been re-created in every generation. The questions about mortality and identity asked by Homer’s heroes, and the bonds of love, respect, and fellowship that motivate them, have gripped audiences for three millennia. George Chapman’s Iliad and Odyssey are great English epic poems as well as two of the liveliest and most readable translations of Homer. Chapman’s freshness makes the everyday world of nature and the craftsman as vivid as the battlefield and Mount Olympus. His poetry is driven by the excitement of the Renaissance discovery of classical civilisation as both vital and distant, and is enriched by the perspectives of humanist thought. The volume includes introductions by Jan Parker.
Information
Author: Homér
Language: English
Publication date: July 5, 2000
Manufacturer: Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Classic literature in english
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 884
ISBN/EAN: 9781840221176