{"product_id":"the-iliad-paperback-11","title":"The Iliad - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHomer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e is the earliest work of Western literature, and along with the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey \u003c\/em\u003eis the wellspring for much of Western culture. Beginning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilles \/ and its devastation\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e describes the devastation unleashed by Achilles's rage, engulfing soldier and civilian, hero and coward, ruler and slave and even women and children. It is a story of heroes of immense pride and animal strength operating in their element. But it is much more than a great war epic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomer creates complex human characters. A Greek and Trojan pair, Diomedes and Glaucus, meet on the battlefield, but realizing that they have an ancestral connection, they exchange conversation and armour rather than taunts and blows. King Priam kisses the hands of Achilles, saying \"I have endured what no one on earth has endured. I have kissed the hands of the man who killed my son,\" an act which provokes deep sympathy in Achilles, who in turn returns the body of heroic Hector which he had defiled. The nearly invincible Ajax struggles to choose between heroic glory on the battlefield and the blessing of returning to the beloved land of his fathers. \u003cem\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of the Trojan War, but much more: it has many tender scenes, it critiques the idea of the hero and it examines the role of the Gods in history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHomer\u003c\/strong\u003e was called \"the teacher of all Greece,\" and \"the leader of Greek culture,\" by Plato. Indeed, in the classical age, the Greeks regarded the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e as much more than works of literature; they knew much of them by heart, and they valued them as symbols of Hellenic unity and heroism but also as sources of moral and even practical instruction. Homer's works have been studied, quoted and translated in every corner of Europe and his influence on the Western imagination is immense. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis prose edition was translated by Samuel Butler, the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel \u003cem\u003eErewhon\u003c\/em\u003e and the semi-autobiographical novel \u003cem\u003eThe Way of All Flesh. \u003c\/em\u003eThe latter was published posthumously as he was afraid to publish it in his lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Iliad\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11.3\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 25\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42709382496319,"sku":"9781789432169","price":22.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/72326010cb6e22d480554f33d48e7cb3.webp?v=1765051234","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-iliad-paperback-11","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}