Iliad: Books 13-24

by Homer, J G Cordery, John Flaxman

Book Overview

The epic tale of wrath and redemption.

Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result: a chain of consequences that proves devastating for the Greek forces besieging Troy, for noble Trojans,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674995805
• ISBN13: 9780674995802
• Release Date: January 1925
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.5" x 6.7"