The Iliad
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Western literature stands The Iliad, Homer's monumental epic that chronicles the final weeks of the Trojan War — a cataclysmic clash of heroes, gods, and empires ignited by pride and the inexorable machinery of fate. The poem centres on the smouldering rage of Achilles, the greatest of the Greek warriors, whose withdrawal from battle and its devastating consequences illuminate the brutal theatre of war outside the walls of Troy, where mortal ambition collides with divine interference in a struggle that will determine the destiny of civilisations. Homer's verse — composed in the oral tradition of ancient Greece and rendered in magnificent dactylic hexameter — transcends the mere recounting of battle to argue something profoundly human: that glory and grief are inseparable, that honour carries a lethal cost, and that even the mightiest of men must reckon with mortality. The Iliad is not merely the founding text of European literature; it is a meditation on the nature of war itself, one that has resonated across three millennia. Whether encountering it for the first time or returning to its thunderous cadences, the reader is left to wonder — as Achilles himself must — whether any prize is truly worth the price.
Author: Homer
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Western literature stands The Iliad, Homer's monumental epic that chronicles the final weeks of the Trojan War — a cataclysmic clash of heroes, gods, and empires ignited by pride and the inexorable machinery of fate. The poem centres on the smouldering rage of Achilles, the greatest of the Greek warriors, whose withdrawal from battle and its devastating consequences illuminate the brutal theatre of war outside the walls of Troy, where mortal ambition collides with divine interference in a struggle that will determine the destiny of civilisations. Homer's verse — composed in the oral tradition of ancient Greece and rendered in magnificent dactylic hexameter — transcends the mere recounting of battle to argue something profoundly human: that glory and grief are inseparable, that honour carries a lethal cost, and that even the mightiest of men must reckon with mortality. The Iliad is not merely the founding text of European literature; it is a meditation on the nature of war itself, one that has resonated across three millennia. Whether encountering it for the first time or returning to its thunderous cadences, the reader is left to wonder — as Achilles himself must — whether any prize is truly worth the price.