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A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists
Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. It…
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If Robin Lane Fox writes a book, I buy it. I have never been disappointed.
I regularly teach the "Iliad." So, reading Fox’s new book about Homer and the "Iliad" feels like a long conversation about a dear friend. He explores and answers “the questions where, how and when . . . [the "Iliad"] is likely to have been composed.” His answer is that Homer was an oral poet, part of a long tradition of oral poets, but he was also the single illiterate author of the intricate and beautiful story that we now call the "Iliad." He comes to…
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