<p>'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...' The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Next to nothing is known about Homer's life. His works available in Penguin Classics are The Homeric Hymns, The Iliad and The Odyssey.</p>

Little Black Classics Circe and the Cyclops

Literature & Fiction

Homer, Homer

History & Criticism

Penguin Classic

The Iliad of Homer, Vol. 1: With a Verse Translation; Books I-XII (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer, Vol. 1: With a Verse Translation; Books I-XIIAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Poetry

Forgotten Books

Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer: To Which Is Added an Appendix Containing Poems Selected From Twenty-Six Languages All TranslatedIt is proposed in this new translation of Homer's Iliad to follow the original text as nearly as practicable in rhymed verse. With this object in view, and since neither a paraphrase nor an imitation has been intended, the versification has been almost invariably subordinated to accuracy of translation. It is hoped that the meter selected, the historical epic measure of the Germanic languages, that of the Niebelungen Lied and Gudrun, will be found adequate to express the narrative ﬂow, rap idity and simplicity of the hexameter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Iliad of Homer: To Which Is Added an Appendix Containing Poems Selected From Twenty-Six Languages All Translated (Classic Reprint)

The Iliad of Homer, Vol. 1: Translated (Classic Reprint)

The Iliad of Homer, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

<p>Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer, Vol. 1There is another point in regard to which I have taken equal pains, and which seems to me equally im portant. I have endeavored to preserve the simplicity of style which distinguishes the old Greek poet, whowrote for the popular ear and according to the genius of his language, and I have chosen such English as offers no violence to the ordinary usages and structure of our own. I have sought to attain what belongs to the original, a &#64258;uent narrative style, which shall carry the reader forward without the impediment of unex pected inversions and capricious phrases, and in which, if he find nothing to stop at and admire, there will at least be nothing to divert his attention from the story and the characters of the poem, from the events related and the objects described. I think that not many readers of the present day would agree with Pope, who, as Spence relates, after remarking that he had nothing to say for rhyme, went on to observe that be doubted whether a poem could be supported without it in our language, unless it were stiffened with such strange words as would destroy our language itself. It is te markable that this should have been said by one who had given the reading world an edition of Shakespeare, in whose dramas are to be found passages of blank verse which might be instanced as the perfection of that form of versification, not to be excelled in sweetness of modulation, and grace and freedom of language, without a single harsh inversion, or any of that clumsy stiffening which Pope so disapproved, yet seemed to think so necessary. The other dramatists of the Eliza bethan period also supply examples of the same noble simplicity of language and construction, suited to the highest poetry. In this translation the natural order of the words has been carefully preserved, as far as the exigencies of versification would allow, and I have ven tured only upon those easy deviations from it which form no interruptions to the sense, and at most only te mind the reader that he is reading verse.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.</p>

The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer: 2

Cowper, WIlliam

Literary

Legare Street Press

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The Iliad, Volume 25

History

Nabu Press

The Iliad of Homer

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Buckley, Theodore William Aldis

Morrice, James

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