The Iliad
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023 • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year 2023 • One of Atlantic's Best Books of 2023 • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • One of New Statesman's 2023 Books of the Year • One of Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections of 2023
The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.
When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)—critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other great epic—the most revered war poem of all time.
The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world—the fierce beauty of nature and the gods' grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson's hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem's deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even "complicated," characters—both human and divine.
The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Homer. (2023). The Iliad. W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Homer. 2023. The Iliad. W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Homer, The Iliad. W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Homer. The Iliad. W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 7 | 1 |
There are 7 holds on this title.
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0044-1/{1FE95FAF-F793-4A4C-A64D-17D79DBDAC22}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0044-1/{1FE95FAF-F793-4A4C-A64D-17D79DBDAC22}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0044-1/{1FE95FAF-F793-4A4C-A64D-17D79DBDAC22}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0044-1/{1FE95FAF-F793-4A4C-A64D-17D79DBDAC22}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781324001812
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781324001812
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781324001805
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Homer
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Iliad
- dateAdded
- 2023-09-22T04:08:41.367Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=141&titleID=9661173
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- Iliad
- crossRefId
- 9661173
- id
- 1FE95FAF-F793-4A4C-A64D-17D79DBDAC22
- starRating
- 0
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: TheIliad_9781324001812_9661173
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 6965568
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781324001812
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 9/26/2023
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1fe95faf-f793-4a4c-a64d-17d79dbdac22&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: TheIliad_9661173
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B0BWL999D3
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 9/26/2023
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1fe95faf-f793-4a4c-a64d-17d79dbdac22&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: TheIliad_9781324001812_9661173
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781324001812
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 9/26/2023
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1fe95faf-f793-4a4c-a64d-17d79dbdac22&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: Agamemnon
- value: Ancient Greece
- value: War
- value: translation
- value: iambic pentameter
- value: gods
- value: poem
- value: hector
- value: Troy
- value: Achilles
- value: Poetry
- value: Ajax
- value: battle
- value: Greek
- value: Trojan War
- value: epic poem
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Homer
- name: Homer
- role: Translator
- fileAs: Wilson, Emily
- bioText: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern studies, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. She lives in Philadelphia.
- name: Emily Wilson
- publishDate
- 2023-09-26T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Iliad
- fullDescription
One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023 • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year 2023 • One of Atlantic's Best Books of 2023 • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • One of New Statesman's 2023 Books of the Year • One of Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections of 2023
The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)—critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other great epic—the most revered war poem of all time.
The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world—the fierce beauty of nature and the gods' grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson's hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem's deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even "complicated," characters—both human and divine.
The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
- reviews
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
August 1, 2023
A bloody tale of ancient war and grief comes to vibrant life in modern-day English. While, in 2018, Wilson was the first woman to translate Homer's Odyssey into English, her Iliad is the second by a woman in the past 10 years, following Caroline Alexander's in 2015. The new work, like her well-received Odyssey, is a hefty package of more than 700 pages, with a highly informative introduction, maps, textual notes, genealogies, and a glossary. Wilson has again presented a Homer that sings, in sprightly iambic pentameter and pellucid language that avoids ponderosities like, well, ponderosities and pellucid. It's repetitious, yes. The last phase of the Trojan War alternates between bickering and battles, starting with the fateful falling out of Achilles and Agamemnon that causes the former to withdraw to his tent for the next 400 pages. Thereafter, and often, the gods bicker and the military leaders bicker, and when they're not fighting verbally, the stage is filled with sorties, routs, and one-on-ones, gorefests whose repetition is relieved by some variety in the slaughter, as eyeballs pop out or entrails pour out or heads come off, leaving torsos to tumble to the ground with a clatter of bronze armor. The shortness of Wilson's lines--compared to Alexander's or those in the popular translation by Richmond Lattimore--abetted by her unfussy diction and lyricism, are easy on the reader's eye and seem to help the mind grasp the breadth of Homer's canvas at any given moment while still marveling at details. Part of that bigger picture is a complex ambivalence about war, which can bestow or restore honor but also destroys friends, families, towns--the common bonds from which people and nations build empathy and tolerance. That message is clear in the closing scenes, as Achilles grieves for his lifelong companion, Patroclus, and Troy mourns Hector. A masterful, highly readable rendering of the Greek classic.COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- popularity
- 7098
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/1fe95faf-f793-4a4c-a64d-17d79dbdac22/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 1fe95faf-f793-4a4c-a64d-17d79dbdac22
- starRating
- 4.2
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0044-1/{1FE95FAF-F793-4A4C-A64D-17D79DBDAC22}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0044-1/{1FE95FAF-F793-4A4C-A64D-17D79DBDAC22}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0044-1/{1FE95FAF-F793-4A4C-A64D-17D79DBDAC22}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0044-1/{1FE95FAF-F793-4A4C-A64D-17D79DBDAC22}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Poetry
- publishDateText
- 09/26/2023
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781324001805
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023 • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year 2023 • One of Atlantic's Best Books of 2023 • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • One of New Statesman's 2023 Books of the Year • One of Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections of 2023
The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)—critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other great epic—the most revered war poem of all...
- sortTitle
- Iliad
- crossRefId
- 9661173
- publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- bisacCodes
- code: POE005030
- description: Poetry / European / General
- code: POE008000
- description: Poetry / Ancient & Classical
- code: POE014000
- description: Poetry / Epic
