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Title: The Iliad I: Books 1-12 (The Loeb Classical Library 170) by Homer, A. T. Murray, William F. Wyatt ISBN: 0-674-99579-1 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "...whether the prophecies of Calchas are true or not..."
Comment: The Loeb editions of the classical Greek and Roman
writers are remarkable -- both for their scholarly
contents as well as for the very readable English
translations which accompany the classical words.
The Greek or Latin texts appear on the left side
pages -- and the immediate English translations
appear on the right hand side, opposite.
This Loeb edition of -The Iliad- comes in 2 volumes:
Vol. 1 (ISBN: 0674995791) contains Books I - 12
of -The Iliad-, with an English translation by
A.T. Murray, revised by William F. Wyatt. Vol. 2
(ISBN: 0674995805) contains Books 13 - 24. This
is a 2nd edition of these volumes, issued in 1999.
In explaining why a revision of Murray's translation
was needed, Wyatt says in the "Preface": "A.T.
Murray's translation of the -Iliad- has long set
a standard for accuracy and style. But its archaic
language no longer seems as appropriate as it did
to earlier generations of readers. In revising it to
fit the expectations of today's readers I have changed
little substantively, but have modernized diction
throughout." And Wyatt is true to his word -- the
revised translation reads easily, but still gives
the flavor of Homer's poetic style through repeated
introductory formulas such as: "Then in answer to
him spoke Achilles, swift of foot" and "Then the
incomparable seer took heart, and spoke, saying...".
Also included are the wondrous Homeric similes
with the full force of their acute observations,
poetic flow, and telling imagery. Here is an
example describing the spread of the Achaeans
throughout the camp: "Just as a consuming fire makes
a boundless forest blaze on the peaks of a mountain,
and from afar can the glare be seen, so from their
magnificent bronze, as they marched out, went the
dazzling gleam through the sky to the heavens."
Included in Vol. 1 is an Introduction as well as
an updated short Bibliography of critical text
citations, Editions and commentaries, Recent
translations, Reference, Linguistic, General
works on Homer, and Studies on the Iliad.
And as Achilles says after he has slain Hector,
"There lies by the ships a dead man unwept, unburied --
Patroclus; him will I not forget so long as I am
among the living, and my knees are quick. And even
if in the house of Hades men forget their dead, yet
will I even there remember my dear comrade."
-- Robert Kilgore.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect for its purpose
Comment: The Loeb series is meant to aid students, which is why its translations often read very literally. When Murray writes, "The wrath sing, goddess, of Peleus' son Achilles," he is following the word order of the Greek exactly: "Mênin aeide, thea, Pêlêiadeô Achilêos." If you buy this book for the Greek text, the literal English translation will help as a quick reference when stuck on a word. If you buy this book for the English translation, you'll gain a sense of the logic of the Greek language and a much more reliable translation than most.
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Title: The Odyssey: Books 1-12 (The Loeb Classical Library, No 104) by Homer, George E. Dimock, A. T. Murray ISBN: 0674995619 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: The Odyssey: Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library, No 105) by Homer, George E. Dimock, A. T. Murray ISBN: 0674995627 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners by Clyde Pharr, John Henry Wright ISBN: 0806119373 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: January, 1986 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect by Richard J. Cunliffe ISBN: 0806114304 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: August, 1977 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Homeric Vocabularies: Greek and English Word List for the Study of Homer by William B. Owen, Edgar J. Goodspeed, Clyde Pharr ISBN: 0806108282 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: March, 1979 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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