And NOW - now This prick stole my biscuit. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Rieu One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer' s Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Robert Fagles and Bernard Knox are to be congratulated and praised on this admirable work.

Fagles' voice is always that of a poet and scholar of our own age as he conveys the power of Homer. Time after time, one pauses and re-reads before continuing. The huge themes-godlike, yet utterly human-of savagery and calculation, of destiny defied, of triumph and grief compel our own humanity. ' In Robert Fagles' beautifully rendered text, the Iliad overwhelms us afresh. With compassion and humanity he presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background. But Homer's theme is not simply war or heroism. It describes how the quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilleus sets in motion a tragic sequence of events, which leads to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determines the ultimate fate of Troy. The story centres on the critical events in four days of the 10th and final year of the war between the Greeks and Trojans.

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