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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories of the victorious in war. There had been stories and epic poems from ancient times - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey recounted ancient Greece, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was a chivalric romance in Middle English, but it was not until the seventeenth...
Author
Series
Loeb classical library volume 170-171
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition--subjects of ongoing controversy--combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader's sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem; its values, implicit and explicit; its characters; its women; its gods; and even its horses.
67) The Trojan War
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Retells some of the scenes from Homer's Iliad, which depicts the exploits of the Greeks and Greek gods during the Trojan War. Discusses the judgment of Paris (which led to the conflict), the beauty of Helen, the fatal weakness of brave Achilles, and the mystery of the Trojan Horse.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
"After ten years of siege by Greek forces, the walls of Troy remain intact. Only the intervention of the greatest warrior of all time, Achilles, can tilt the balance in favor of the invaders. On the Trojan side, Prince Hector is the only one who can face him. This is the story of the greatest war of all time. The war that brought all the heroes of ancient Greece together and turned them into immortal legends. It is the war that made the gods of Olympus...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición: marzo de 2021.
Language
Español
Description
Patroclo, un joven príncipe torpe, sigue a Aquiles a la guerra, sin saber que los años siguientes pondrán a prueba todo lo que han aprendido, todo lo que aprecian. Y que, antes de que esté listo, se verá obligado a entregar a su amigo en manos de Fate. Ambientada durante la Guerra de Troya.
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
For thousands of years, Homer's ancient epic poem the Iliad has enchanted readers from around the world. When you join Professor Vandiver for this lecture series on the Iliad, you'll come to understand what has enthralled and gripped so many people. Her compelling 12-lecture look at this literary masterpiece - whether it's the work of many authors or the "vision" of a single blind poet - makes it vividly clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Iliad...
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