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Iliad of Homer
SKU
037399
ISBN
9780226470498
Grade 7-AD
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This book includes a beautiful translation of the Iliad by Richmond Lattimore. The translation is very poetic and easy to read, capturing the essence of the original text while using more contemporary language. It makes the Homer telling of the Battle of Troy more readable than it's ever been. A 55 page introduction is included that summarizes and analyzes the text. A helpful glossary of names and terms is included. If you're going to undertake the reading of this ancient poem, this translation is the one to use. Every fifth line of the poem is numbered for easy reference and group reading. 528 pgs, pb.
Category Description for Omnibus IV: The Ancient World
First Semester Primary Books: Proverbs, Job, Psalms, Bacchae and Other Plays, Iliad of Homer, Introduction to Arisotle, Landmark Thucydides, Lysistrata and Other Plays, The Republic.
First Semester Secondary Books: Aesop's Fables (Signet Classic), Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Art and the Bible, Augustus Caesar's World, Death on the Nile, Troilus and Cressida, 1st and 2nd Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
Second Semester Primary: Gospel of Mark, Philippians and Colossians, Annals of Imperial Rome, Apostolic Fathers, Cicero: Selected Works, Eclogues and Georgics, New Complete Works of Josephus, Meditations, Metamorphosis, New Oxford Annotated Apocrypha, On the Nature of Things, Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements Vol. 1, War with Hannibal.
Second Semester Secondary Books: Antony and Cleopatra (Oxford School Shakespeare), Desiring God, Knowing God, Lost World, Mythology, Phantastes, Plutarch's Lives Vol. 2, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
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| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 7-AD |
| Brand: | University of Chicago Press |
| Author: | Richard Lattimore |
| ISBN: | 9780226470498 |
| Length in Inches: | 8.5 |
| Width in Inches: | 5.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 1.75 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.55 |
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needed for college
part of curriculum with Logoonlineschool
Omnibus IV reading
This is the translation recommended by Wes Calahan, in the Old Western Culture Great Books class from Roman Roads media. He likes the translation because of the content and the feel of the verse.