The Essential Iliad: An Abridged Version of the Iliad by Wesley Callihan - Couverture souple

Callihan, Wesley; Homer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1944482571 ISBN 13 : 9781944482572

Editeur : Roman Roads Media, LLC, 2021

Synopsis

The Essential Iliad is a new rendition of Homer’s Iliad by Wesley Callihan, containing the six essential books of this great epic, with a Foreword by Dr. Dale Grote, introductions, and summaries of all 24 books of the Iliad.

Unabridged Books Included

• Book I: The Wrath of Achilleus
• Book IX: The Embassy to Achilleus
• Book XVI: The Death of Patroklos
• Book XVIII: The Shield of Achilleus
• Book XXII: The Death of Hektor
• Book XXIV: The Burial of Hektor

About this edition

This Essential version of Homer's Iliad is an abridgment in the form of six complete books, rather than an abridgment of the entire work in the form of condensing the text. Our philosophy of reading great books is that you should encounter the author directly, which can still be done with this kind of abridgment. If a student reads a traditional abridgment or paraphrased work, it is common to have the feeling of not having actually read the author. But if you read unabridged sections, you walk away knowing “this is what Homer is like.” The purpose of this Essential version of the Iliad will do just that, and give you a true taste of Homer, a sweet and pleasing taste that will make you desire more.

A Note about the Translation

The six books included in this volume are taken from the full edition, which is a new prose rendering based on the 1883 translation of Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers. Although that is an accurate translation, the storytelling is obscured, sometimes to the point of incomprehension, by the archaic Elizabethan and Sir Thomas Mallory diction and style, which they thought suited the story but for the modern reader only creates problems. This new rendering attempts to preserve the accuracy but make the story far more readable. I have revised the text into contemporary American English (though on occasion archaic words were necessary) while attempting to preserve as much of the syntactical structure and style as possible; sometimes the revision is light, but more often it is radical, and if one were to compare this text with the original the connection might not be apparent at all. I have aimed to give a reading that is plain and direct, but still noble; you will find no attempt at casual, much less slangy, diction. This version of the Iliad is more than just a revision—it is a new version based on that older one.
– Wesley Callihan, from the introduction

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Roman Roads Media, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1944482571
• ISBN 13: 9781944482572
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
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