The Iliad of Homer by Homer (PDF)

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This translation of Homer’s “Iliad” by the poet and classicist Ennis Rees attempts to be both faithful to the original and accessible to the modern reader.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: About the Author About the Translator: Ennis Rees is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of The Tragedies of George Chapman: Renaissance Ethics in Action and of two volumes of verse, The Song of Paul Bunyon and Tony Beaver and Riddles, Riddles Everywhere. He is also the translator of anedition of The Odyssey.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Tolstoy thought the Iliad “a miracle.” I have to agree. It is equal parts tragedy, breathtakingly beautiful poetry, and as to the affairs of the gods, slapstick farce. It is the most amazing thing I’ve ever read in my life. I picked up a copy of Ennis Rees translation of The Odyssey forty years ago. It took me the full forty years to read it but I did. I bought Lattimore’s translation which is supposed to be the standard. but I prefer Rees. His work is simpler, economic yet detailed. I think his work merits a longer life.

⭐I have read this, and then read the much-lauded Robert Fitzgerald translation, which is currently popular. The Ennis Rees translation far outstrips the Fitzgerald. It brings the magic and poetry of the Iliad to life, as I read it I went through my daily routine in a daze, I found myself thinking in Homeric verse. After finishing the book I only wished for more, Ennis Rees, truly understands the rhythm and the halcyon glow that is the poetry of Homer. On the other hand I found the Fitzgerald translatiion, while easy to read, lacked a certain poetic beat, and lacked also the magic of the Ennis Rees translation. I found the charecters did not come to life as they did in the Rees translation. Although certainly the Fitzgerald translation, is a decent effort and much better than the priggish prose translation of Richard Latimer.

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