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...Wrath of Achilles. The Iliad has never been translated into English as successfully as the Odyssey, of which George Chapman in the 16th and William Morris in the 19th Century made accomplished versions. The Iliad has less narrative charm and less of the lyric graces that are easy for English poetry. Translators' English has seldom touched its humor and power...
...ILIAD OF HOMER, A LINE FOR LINE TRANSLATION IN DACTYLIC HEXAMETERS-William Benjamin Smith and Walter Miller-Macmillan...
...been fought by the chivalry from the Peloponnesus against the chivalry of Asia Minor at a walled town, Troy, near the entrance to the Dardanelles. The Odyssey told of the wanderings of the Greek soldier, Odysseus, on his way home to the island of Ithaca (now Corfu); the Iliad told of the wrath of Achilles and what came of it at the siege of Troy. The Iliad is the first great war book, and probably the greatest pre-Christian poem...
...ardor, humor and radiance of life, the bloody darkness of death in war are constantly and insistently mingled in the Iliad. It is more than a war story of the Greeks, fighting on their beaches before Troy. Artful in detail, it is also awesome in implication. As the French scholar Rachel Bespaloff recently observed, the Iliad presents a civilized soldier, Hector, who has everything precious to defend, in contrast and finally in combat with the childlike yet superhuman fury which was Achilles...
Plato's "Republic" has been the subject of lectures given by University Professors Roscoo Pound, John D. Wild and Raphiel Demos. The course in great books continues this month with Homer's "Iliad." A committee of undergraduates is being organized to help lead discussions for the patients, and those interested are asked to see Brooks House representatives...