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1) The Iliad
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English
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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....
2) The Aeneid
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English
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"For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas's dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas's heroic journey not only gave Romans and Italians a thrilling origin story, it established many of the fundamental themes of Western life and literature-the role of duty and self-sacrifice,...
4) The Odyssey
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English
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"In this fresh, authoritative version?the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman?this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, this engrossing translation matches the number of lines in the Greek original, thus striding at Homer?s sprightly pace and singing with a voice that echoes Homer?s music."--Amazon.com.
7) Gilgamesh: a new translation of the ancient epic with essays on the poem, its past, and its passion
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Gilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh's deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with death, the destruction of nature, insomnia and restlessness, finding peace in one's community, the voice of women, the folly of gods, heroes, and monsters--and more. Millennia after its composition,...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
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English
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Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the Shahnameh, the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre-Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century. As a window on the world, Shahnameh belongs in the company of such literary...
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st bilingual ed.; [Heaney translation].
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English
Description
Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In...
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The Aeneid is the great national epic of ancient Rome, and one of the most important works of literature ever written. And with Professor Vandiver's twelve instructive lectures, you'll enter fully into the gripping tale that Virgil tells. Join Aeneas on his long journey west from ruined Troy to the founding of a new nation in Italy, and see how he weaves a rich network of compelling human themes. Your encounter with the Aeneid focuses on careful,...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
"A melancholy masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century. In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the significance of the poem to his writing, noting that "there's one Virgilian journey...
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Italiano
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La Gerusalemme liberata è considerata il capolavoro del Tasso. Il poema tratta di un avvenimento realmente accaduto, ossia la prima crociata. Tasso iniziò a scrivere l'opera con il titolo di Gierusalemme nel 1559 durante il soggiorno a Venezia e la concluse nel 1575. L'opera fu pubblicata integralmente nel 1581 con il titolo di Gerusalemme liberata. In seguito alla pubblicazione del poema il poeta rimise mano all'opera e la riscrisse eliminando...
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Publisher
Lea
Pub. Date
2015.
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Español
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Esta es la historia de una guerra. Pero no de cualquier guerra, es la historia de una de las guerras más famosas de la historia de la humanidad. Una guerra que empezó, como toda guerra, por una razón pequeña y casi insignificante, y creció hasta convertirse en días y días de enfrentamientos y horror. Esta es la historia de la Guerra de Troya y su larga contienda entre aqueos y troyanos. Plagada de héroes enormes y poderosos, dioses y diosas...
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"In this passionate, deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters--to him, to you, to the world--in a text full of twists, turns and surprises. In a spectacular journey through mythical and modern landscapes, Adam Nicholson explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes. From Sicily, awash with wildflowers shadowed by Italy's largest oil refinery, to Ithaca, southern Spain, and the mountains on the edges of Andalusia...
20) Maafa
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Publisher
Fence Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Maafa is Swahili for catastrophe or holocaust. It echoes and transambulates the Hebrew word Shoah. Without a word for a traumatic event, its erasure is always in progress, without a system of naming our history, we become addicted to its ghosts of familiarity. Names are angels of mercy. The project of this work is to unleash this word and its healing components from obscurity. The erasure of trauma and the erasure of black femininity are happening...
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