(Paperback, New edition)

A translation of Homer's poem of war which is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. This volume retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans.

(Paperback)

Describes the adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. This poem also describes his endurance, his love for his wife and son.

(Paperback, New edition)

This text provides a line-by-line commentary on Books XIII-XXIV of Homer's epic poem, 'The Iliad'.

(Hardback)

Gripping...Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task...[He] manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic. --Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review

(Leather / fine binding)

(Paperback)

Tells the story of darkest episode in "Trojan War". At its centre is Achilles, greatest warrior-champion of Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, he storms back into battle to take revenge - even though he knows this may ensure his own death.

(Paperback)

Features Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, Achilles storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death.

(Paperback)

High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Greek ships decay, men languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a desperate people await the next turn of fate.

(Paperback)

A story that centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth and final year of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. It describes how the quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilleus sets in motion a tragic sequence of events, which leads to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determines the ultimate fate of Troy.

(Hardback)

Centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determine the fate of Troy. This book presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background.

(Hardback, Revised, Bonded Leather)

(Paperback)

A stunning new translation of the classic tale of the fall of Troy from one of the world's finest translators. If you enjoyed THE SONG OF ACHILLES, discover the original and the best...

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has an economy and soar of a poet'.
Introduced by Seamus Heaney

(Hardback)

Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.

(Hardback)

One of the greatest adventure tales in history, The Odyssey - Odysseus' journey home after The Trojan War - is still a must-read for young and old alike.

(Paperback, Revised edition)

Presents the original text of the translation of the Homeric hymns. This title also includes epigrams and poems attributed to Homer and known as "The Lesser Homerica," as well as his famous "The Battle of Frogs and Mice."

(Paperback)

This edition provides the commentary and student aids lacking in larger volumes on Homer's work, containing a full Introduction designed to highlight the most important features of the text. The Greek text is printed with a facing literal English translation intended to help beginners to construe the Greek. There is also a full vocabulary list.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Geared very much to the needs of those coming to Homer for the first time, this book provides an unexpurgated text, commentary and introduction to books 6 and 7 of the "Odyssey".

(Paperback, Second edition)

First published in the outstanding and long-running 'red Macmillan' series in 1948 and revised in 1958 and 1962 Stanford's second volume of the "Odyssey" has remained the standard edition used by upper school and university students to guide their early reading of the epic.

(Paperback)

Captures both the simplicity and the intensity of Homer's epic.

(Paperback)

Deals with literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. This title presents you with the author's best-loved poem, recounting Odysseus' wanderings after the Trojan War.

(Hardback)

One of the greatest adventure tales in history, The Odyssey-Odysseus's journey home after The Trojan War-is still a must-read in this newly designed faux-leather edition.