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An edition designed to bring Homer's epic work into the twenty-first century while leaving the actual poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever, Richard Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses (with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek) remain unchanged, while classicist Richard Martin adds in a wealth of supplementary materials intended to aid new generations of readers.
The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes lived, and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.