Listen to Jeffrey Brown interview Caroline Alexander, author of a new translation of "The Iliad." Many readers think of "The Iliad" as a daunting text. But Caroline Alexander, whose new translation of ...
The Guardian: New translation of the Iliad by Caroline Alexander – extract
Vintage Classics has acquired a new translation of Homer's The Iliad by classics scholar and author Caroline Alexander. Laura Hassan, editorial director at RH imprint Vintage Classics, bought ...
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The Guardian: Translating the Iliad: webchat with Caroline Alexander – as it happened
POETRY: The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of the Iliadby Caroline Alexander, Faber & Faber, 296pp, £20 IT WAS A 10-YEAR CONFLICT that "established no boundaries, won no territory and ...
An Outline of the Homeric Iliad, designed especially for first-time readers by Gregory Nagy, 2024.09.02, rewritten 2025.08.31 re-edited and supplemented by Arin Jones and Hannah Lynch, 2024.09.04; further re-edited and supplemented by Claudia Filos, 2025.09.02 What I write here, consistently to be called an Outline, aims to introduce “first-timers” to the English translation that I […]
Iliad Translations The Iliad of Homer is an epic, ancient Greek poem. It is one of the oldest works of literature still read. It takes place near the end of the siege of Troy by the Greeks (also known as the Trojan War). The story depicts an argument between King Agamemnon and the great warrior Achilles, and the consequences of it on the ongoing war between Trojans and Greeks. The Iliad has ...