Author: Robin Lane Fox

Title: Homer and His Iliad

Binding: Hardcover

Number Of Pages: 464

Release Date: 2023

Details: A "compelling and impressive" (Sunday Times) reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful

The Iliad is the world's greatest epic poem-heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure?

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.

Thousands of readers turn to theIliadevery year. Drawing on fifty years of reading and research, Lane Fox offersus a breathtaking tour of this magnificent text, revealing why the poem has endured for ages.

EAN: 9781541600447

Package Dimensions: Height: 9 inches, Length: 5.75 inches, Weight: 1.55 pounds, Width: 1.25 inches

Languages: en