~ Trade Paperback Recounting the darkest episode of the Trojan War, The Iliad tells the story of the Greek struggle to rescue Helen, a Greek queen, from her Trojan captors. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals . . . Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring epic while maintaining the drive and metric music of Homer's poetry and evoking the impact and nuance of the Iliad's memerizing repeated phrases. "A great achievement, Fagles has made these pages sing with ancient and modern power, and, with a clean, cleat language, has brought Homer to life." -- Anthony Hecht, Poet and Literary Critic
