{"product_id":"the-iliad-paperback","title":"The Iliad (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Emily Wilson's translation of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that \"combines intellectual authority with addictive readability\" (Edith Hall, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)―critics lauded it as \"a revelation\" (Susan Chira, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and \"a cultural landmark\" (Charlotte Higgins, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of the first great Homeric epic: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Wilson's hands, this exciting and often horrifying work now gallops at a pace befitting its battle scenes, roaring with the clamour of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors and the anguished cries of dying men. Wilson's unadorned but resonant language plumbs the poem's profound pathos and reveals its characters as palpably real, even \"complicated,\" human beings. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homer's poetry, Wilson's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIliad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Homer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61740830785866,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1037\/5256\/5066\/files\/FullSizeRender.jpg?v=1777588263","url":"https:\/\/mavisbookshop.com\/products\/the-iliad-paperback","provider":"Mavis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}