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Cover art: The cover shows a section of the manuscript of the Iliad in the Ambrosiana at Milan.
Blurb: “TRANSLATED BY E. V. RIEU
The Greeks considered the lliad their greatest literary achievement, and no epic poem in any language has ever rivalled it. Out of a single episode. in the Tale of Troy, Achilles' withdrawal from the fighting and his return to kill the Trojan hero Hector, Homer created a timeless, dramatic tragedy. His characters are heroic but their passions and problems are human and universal, and he presents them with compassion, understanding, and humour against the harsh background of war.
E. V. Rieu's prose translation has the same direct
•simplicity and subtle elegance which distinguishes his Odyssey; it moves swiftly and confidently through the greater complexity of the liad and never falls short of the nobility of Homer's theme.”