Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains allusions and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Iliad.
Achilles Tatius was a Greek from Alexandria in Egypt; he is now believed to have flourished in the second century CE. Of his life nothing is known, though the Suidas says he became a Christian and a
A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he encounters many monsters and other obstacles on his journey home from the Trojan War.
"The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language."--William Arrowsmith"Certainly the best modern verse translation."--Gilbert Highet "This magnificent translation of Homer's epic
According to legend, in ancient times Agamemnon led the Greeks into warwith the city of Troy to recapture the beautiful Helen of Troy, wife ofKing Menelaus of Sparta.
The eighth-century B.C. Greek poet's account of the beginnings of the divine, physical, and human worlds and the birth of the Titans and the Olympian gods
