Homer and His Iliad
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Read by Steve John Shepherd
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- Oct 24, 2023
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- Hachette Audio
- ISBN-13
- 9781668632819
The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem—heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure?
Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition—subjects of ongoing controversy—combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader’s sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem; its values, implicit and explicit; its characters; its women; its gods; and even its horses.
Thousands of readers turn to the Iliad every year. Drawing on fifty years of reading and research, Lane Fox offers us a breathtaking tour of this magnificent text, revealing why the poem has endured for ages.
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“Lane Fox is an Oxford don, and his book the result of a lifetime’s dedication to the Iliad — personally and professionally. As such it is rigorously academic, but also winningly idiosyncratic…. This is a compelling and impressive work.”Times (UK)
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“This is a compelling and impressive work.”Sunday Times (UK)
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“A bold reassessment of how [the Iliad] came to life.”The Spectator (UK)
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“Excellent … This book is the expression of [Fox’s] lifelong love for the poem.”Country Life
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“An engaging, scholarly commentary.”The Oldie
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“A lucid, scholarly exploration into an immortal work.”Kirkus
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“Homer and His Iliad is rich, imaginative, perceptive and gorgeously written.”Literary Review
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