Homer

The centuries old epic about the wrath of Achilles is rendered into modern English verse by a renowned translator and accompanied by an introduction that reassesses the identity of Homer. In Robert Fagles' beautifully rendered text, the Iliad overwhelms us afresh. The huge themes godlike, yet utterly human of savagery and calculation, of destiny defied, of triumph and grief compel our own humanity. Time after time, one pauses and re-reads before continuing....

The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despair, and honor and glory. The recent major motion picture Helen of Troy starring Brad Pitt proves that this epic is as relevant today as it was twenty five hundred years ago when it was first written. So journey back to the Trojan War with Homer and relive the grandest adventure of all times. The Odyssey:...

No hay, probablemente, en toda la literatura occidental una obra más rica en motivos que la Odisea, compuesta a finales del siglo VIII a. C. por un gran poeta que llamamos Homero. Aunque compuesto en hexámetros y según las técnicas tradicionales de la composición oral, el Poema de Ulises es mucho más moderno y vario que un cantar de gestas guerreras. Es, como se ha dicho muchas veces, un primer relato de aventuras casi novelescas, con diversos...

Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy… So starts Homer's The Odyssey, the classic account of the Greek hero Odysseus and his ten-year journey home, following the glories and horrors of the Trojan War as recounted in The Illiad. In this prose retelling of Homer's epic poem, we follow Homer and his shipmates as they weather one danger after another, from the sorceress Circe...

The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despair, and honor and glory. The recent major motion picture Helen of Troy starring Brad Pitt proves that this epic is as relevant today as it was twenty five hundred years ago when it was first written. So, journey back to the Trojan War with Homer and relive the grandest adventure of all times. The Odyssey:...

George Chapman's translations of Homer-immortalized by Keats's sonnet-are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." And the great critic George Saintsbury wrote, "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what the Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator...

The Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed to the poet Homer and are the earliest surviving works of Western literature. Composed sometime around the eighth century BC, the ancient Greek poems has since been translated into many languages and serves as an important source of information on ancient Greek culture and mythology. In the Iliad it is the tenth year of the Trojan War. The Greek allies have laid siege to the city of Troy, but the leaders of...

The Homeric Hymns is a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns employ the same epic meter-dactylic hexameter-as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect.

Obras completas de Homero ÍNDICE: [Biografía Homero] [Biografía de Luis Segalá] [LA ILÍADA] [ODISEA] [HIMNOS] [EPIGRAMAS] I: A LOS NEOTIQUENSES II: ESTANDO PARA REGRESAR A CIME III: A MIDAS IV: A LOS CIMEOS V: AL TESTÓRIDA VI: A POSIDÓΝ VII: A LA CIUDAD DE ERITREA VIII: A LOS MARINEROS IX: A LOS MISMOS X: A UN PINO XI: A GLAUCO, EL CABRERO XII: A UNA SACERDOTISA DE SAMOS A LA CASA DE LOS COFRATRICIOS XIV: EL HORNO O EL VASO DE ARCILLA XV:...

With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from the same imaginative sources as his epic poem Omeros. Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his island home of Ithaca are pungently interspersed with a commentary by the blind singer Billy Blue. Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea, the giant Cyclops, Circe...