Chapman's Homer: The Iliad
(Paperback, Revised edition)
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Published: 22nd February 1999
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Publishing Details
Chapman's Homer: The Iliad
By (Author) Homer
Edited by Allardyce Nicoll
Translated by George Chapman
Preface by Garry Wills
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
22nd February 1999
Revised edition
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Biography and non-fiction prose
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
883.01
Physical Properties
Paperback
648
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
879g
Description
This volume presents George Chapman's original 1611 translation of Homer's epic poem "The Iliad". The text makes only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader, and provides an introduction, textual notes and a commentary. A preface explains how Chapman tapped into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the Iliad's warriors, and the cosmological symbols of renaissance humanism.
Reviews
"Nicoll's gently modernised edition of Chapman's Homer [is] a work to be admired, bought, even read right through... This cheap reprint of a scarce and very good edition of a great work is a thing to be welcomed."--Colin Burrow, London Review of Books
