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The Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad Paperback - 2009

by Homer; Introduction by Robert Graves; Robert Graves (Translator)

Robert Graves's dynamic retelling of Homer's powerful epic poem

This edition of Homer 's Iliad , retold withauthority and grace by the incomparable Robert Graves, takes arevered classic back to its roots as popular entertainment. War israging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warriorchampion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent andrefusing to fight, after an argument with his leader, Agamemnon.But when the Trojan warrior Hector kills Achilles' beloved friendPatroclus, Achilles plunges back into battle to seek his bloodyrevenge-even though it will bring about his own doom.


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Robert Graves's dynamic retelling of Homer's powerful epic poem

This edition of Homer 's Iliad , retold with authority and grace by the incomparable Robert Graves, takes a revered classic back to its roots as popular entertainment. War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after an argument with his leader, Agamemnon. But when the Trojan warrior Hector kills Achilles' beloved friend Patroclus, Achilles plunges back into battle to seek his bloody revenge-even though it will bring about his own doom.

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Robert Graves's dynamic retelling of Homer's powerful epic poem This edition of Homer 's Iliad, retold with authority and grace by the incomparable Robert Graves, takes a revered classic back to its roots as popular entertainment. War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after an argument with his leader, Agamemnon. But when the Trojan warrior Hector kills Achilles' beloved friend Patroclus, Achilles plunges back into battle to seek his bloody revenge-even though it will bring about his own doom. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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  • Title The Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad
  • Author Homer; Introduction by Robert Graves; Robert Graves (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition By
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, London
  • Date 2009-04-28
  • ISBN 9780140455601 / 0140455604
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.74 x 5.22 x 0.9 in (19.66 x 13.26 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Library of Congress subjects Trojan War, Achilles (Greek mythology)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 883.01

About the author

The Greeks attributed both the Iliad and the Odyssey to a single poet whom they named Homer. Nothing is known of his life, though received opinion dates him c. 700 BC and places him in Ionia, the Greek-inhabited coast and islands off central western Turkey. Most modern scholars place the composition of the Iliad in the second half of the eighth century BC. Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Apart from a year as Professor of English Literature at Cairo University in 1926 he earned his living by writing, mostly historical novels which include I, Claudius and Claudius the God. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That in 1929 and it rapidly established itself as a modern classic. He translated Apuleius, Lucan and Suetonius for the Penguin Classics series, and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1961, and made an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, in 1971. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.
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