| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
|
| Title/Author: |
The Iliad // Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. |
| Author: |
Homer. |
| other author: |
Fagles, Robert. |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :Viking, : 1990., |
| Description: |
xvi, 683 p. :maps, geneal. table ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction: Spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names -- Maps -- Homeric geography: Mainland Greece -- Homeric geography: Peloponnese -- Homeric geography: Aegean and Asia minor -- Inset: Troy and vicinity -- Homer: Iliad -- Rage of Achilles -- Great gathering of Armies -- Helen reviews the champions -- Truce erupts in war -- Diomedes fights the gods -- Hector returns to Troy -- Ajax duels with Hector -- Tide of battle turns -- Embassy of Achilles -- Marauding through the night -- Agamemnon's day of glory -- Trojans storm the rampart -- Battling for the ships -- Hera outflanks Zeus -- Achaean Armies the bay -- Patroclus fights and dies -- Menelaus' finest hour -- Shield of Achilles -- Champion arms for battle -- Olympian gods in arms -- Achilles fights the river -- Death of Hector -- Funeral games for Patroclus -- Achilles and Priam -- Notes: Genealogy of the royal house of Troy -- Textual Variants from the Oxford classical text -- Notes on the translation -- Suggestions for further reading -- Pronouncing glossary. |
| Subject: |
Achilles (Greek mythology) - Poetry. - |
| ISBN: |
0140275363 (pbk.) |