The Iliad: Introduction by Gregory Nagy

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Author/Contributor(s): Homer; Fitzgerald, Robert; Nagy, Gregory Publisher: Everyman's Library Date: 3/10/1992 Binding: Hardcover Condition: NEW In every century since the renaissan ce, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our century by the distinguished poet and classicist Robert Fitzgerald, whose version of The Iliad does justice in every way to the fluent vigor and gravity of the Homeric original. Show more