The Iliad

This annotated edition of “”The Iliad “” includes: Explanations of historical context Literary comments and analyses The Iliad (ART STORIA Literary Classics Annotated Edition) Love and friendship, fate and free will, and honor are the main themes of Homer’s The Iliad. All three themes follow Achilles and the other main characters of the epic poem. We see how Achilles’ friendship with Patroclus and his hunger for honor guides much of the epic, which leads to both his and Hector’s demises. This edition includes Samuel Butler’s translation which is among the best known and most popular prose translations of the Iliad—and deservedly so. It is accurate, unpretentious, and fluent. It is also very accessible on the internet. Butler was committed to rendering the Iliad in contemporary English, but there’s still a strong sense of artificial antiquarianism in some of the syntax and diction, a sense of Medieval chivalry (in all fairness to Butler, many people do like that). —- ISBN: 9798501455443