The Iliad. [Import] [Hardcover]

Homer. (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 470 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0064303985
• ISBN-13: 978-0064303989
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,485,166 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives.

He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Virtual Unknown...., April 15, 2009

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Ryan Kouroukis "In 1882 Richard Wagner said: ... - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Iliad. (Hardcover)

Michael Reck's translation of Homer's Iliad is vitually unknown...how pitiable! It is actually one of the finest and impressive accounts I've come accross thus far.

Written is short verses, and rendered line-by-line it speaks with a racy, contemporary and firey idiom. After comparing it to Richmond Lattimore's famous version (in long-lined verse), I have to say that Michael Reck's version is far superior and FAR more exciting....almost as exciting as Stanley Lombardo's!

Reck's translation reminds me of Albert Cook's line-by-line (verse)tranlsation of the Odyssey, which is naturally poetic, exciting and true to Homer.

Reck spent the last 20 years of his life on this translation, and died shortly after it's publication. It is a breath of fresh air after so many other Iliads out there, and am glad to have found it!