The War That Killed Achilles

Author : Caroline Alexander
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571258338

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The War That Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander Pdf

The Iliad is still the greatest poem about war that our culture has ever produced. For a hundred generations, poets and thinkers in the West have pored over, retold and argued about the events described in this martial epic, even when direct knowledge of it was lost. Various empires have admired it as a book that in telling the story of the siege of Troy also extols the warrior ethic, and teaches the young how to die well. Yet the figure at the heart of the epic, the consummate warrior Achilles, is a brooding, controversial hero. He is a fierce critic of those who have started this war and allowed it to drag on, consuming soldiers and civilians alike. Disconcertingly, The Iliad portrays war as a catastrophe that destroys cities, orphans children and wrecks whole societies. Caroline Alexander's extraordinary book is not about any of the traditional concerns that have occupied classicists for centuries. It is simpler and more radical than that. In her words, 'This book is about what the Iliad is about; this book is about what the Iliad says of war.'

Author : Homer,William Lucas Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3QA2

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The Iliad by Homer,William Lucas Collins Pdf

Author : Madeline Miller
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062060631

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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Pdf

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett “Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad. An action-packed adventure, an epic love story, a marvelously conceived and executed page-turner, Miller’s monumental debut novel has already earned resounding acclaim from some of contemporary fiction’s brightest lights—and fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield, and Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series will delight in this unforgettable journey back to ancient Greece in the Age of Heroes.

Author : Homer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375039134

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The Iliad of Homer by Homer Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza.

Author : Caroline Alexander
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0143118269

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The War That Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander Pdf

From the author of the bestselling work "The Bounty" comes a groundbreaking reading of "The Iliad" that restores Homer's vision of the tragedy of war.

Author : Homer,Alexandros Palles
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0530897423

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The Twenty-Second Book of the Iliad by Homer,Alexandros Palles Pdf

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Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743264426

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The Trojan War by Barry Strauss Pdf

Drawing on archaeological research, an expert account of the famous historical battle confirms many details recounted in Homer's epic account, from Troy's alliance with the Hittite Empire to the significant fire at the end of the twelfth century and facts

Author : Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521193887

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Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue by Peter J. Ahrensdorf Pdf

This book seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in political and moral philosophy.

Author : Homer,Agnes Spofford Cook Gale
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0341770744

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Achilles & Hector by Homer,Agnes Spofford Cook Gale Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Barbara Graziosi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199589944

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Homer by Barbara Graziosi Pdf

The Iliad and the Odyssey are the cornerstones of Western literature, inspiring artists, writers, philosophers, musicians, playwrights, and film-makers throughout history. Barbara Graziosi introduces Homer's key works and discusses the main literary, historical, and archaeological issues at the heart of Homeric studies.

Author : W. H. Auden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691218656

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The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden Pdf

"The first critical edition of W. H. Auden's poetry collection The Shield of Achilles, which won the 1956 National Book Award in Poetry, this book will include the complete text of Auden's award-winning volume The Shield of Achilles, accompanied critical commentary by Alan Jacobs: a preface to provide historical and publishing context; a longer introduction to orient the reader to the poems themselves; and detailed notes on words or passages in need of clarification for contemporary readers. Jacobs, who has edited two previous critical editions of Auden's poetry, argues that this was the most important single collection of poems Auden published, and also the most coherent of his collections. The two poetic sequences, "Bucolics" and "Horae Canonicae," bookend a remarkable set of lyrics, with "The Shield of Achilles" itself at the heart. One of Auden's last long poems, it refers to moment in The Iliad in which Thetis, mother of Achilles, asks Hephaestus to forge a shield for her son. Auden re-imagines how the shield of Achilles would look in the modern age, when the rules of war and the role of the hero have been rewritten. While the volume was widely praised, it is now out of print (although the title poem is included in larger collections of Auden's poetry). A critical edition allows readers to better understand and appreciate one of Auden's most important later poetic works, written in what Jacobs describes as "a poetic idiom that differs quite significantly from what anyone else at the time was doing. . . . it is, in a vital sense, public poetry and it can be enjoyed, understood, and profited from. This edition is meant to make that enjoyment, understanding, and profit easier of access.""--

Author : Amal El-Mohtar,Max Gladstone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781534431010

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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar,Max Gladstone Pdf

* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * “[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right? Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.

Author : Christopher Logue
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Achilles (Greek mythology)
ISBN : 0571209076

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War Music by Christopher Logue Pdf

This text contains the first three volumes of Christopher Logue's recomposition of Homer's Iliad - Kings, The Husbands and War Music.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781451627626

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The Iliad by Homer Pdf

TOLSTOY CALLED THE ILIAD A miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer’s story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations haven’t been able to re-create the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and pulsing rhythm of the original. In Stephen Mitchell’s Iliad, the epic story resounds again across 2,700 years, as if the lifeblood of its heroes Achilles and Patroclus, Hector and Priam flows in every word. And we are there with them, amid the horror and ecstasy of war, carried along by a poetry that lifts even the most devastating human events into the realm of the beautiful. Mitchell’s Iliad is the first translation based on the work of the preeminent Homeric scholar Martin L. West, whose edition of the original Greek identifies many passages that were added after the Iliad was first written down, to the detriment of the music and the story. Omitting these hundreds of interpolated lines restores a dramatically sharper, leaner text. In addition, Mitchell’s illuminating introduction opens the epic still further to our understanding and appreciation. Now, thanks to Stephen Mitchell’s scholarship and the power of his language, the Iliad’s ancient story comes to moving, vivid new life.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520293632

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The Odyssey by Homer Pdf

"This is a translation of the epic Greek poem by Homer."--Provided by publisher.