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1) The Iliad
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Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia.
The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017 -- revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability"...
2) The Odyssey
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A new translation of Homer's work of "one-eyed man-eating giants; irresistibly seductive sirens; shipwrecks and narrow escapes; princesses and monsters; ghosts sipping blood at the Underworld's portal, desperate for a chance to speak to the living; and the final destruction of all of Odysseus's enemies in the banquet hall"--Dust jacket flap.
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No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey-with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Ulysses and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods-are familiar to most people because they are so pervasive. They have fed our imaginations for over two and a half millennia,...
4) La Odisea
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Las andanzas y aventuras de Odiseo, vividas en el lapso de diez años que duró su regreso al hogar tras una activa participación en la guerra de Troya, conforman la apretada trama, casi novelesca, de uno de los grandes monumentos de nuestro patrimonio intelectual. Probablemente compuesta a fines del siglo VIII a.C., la Odisea nos adentra en un mundo real, el Mediterráneo antiguo, pero repleto de peligros y poblado por seres fabulosos: magas, ninfas,...
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"In this passionate, deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters -- to him, to you, to the world -- in a text full of twists, turns and surprises. In a spectacular journey through mythical and modern landscapes, Adam Nicholson explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes. From Sicily, awash with wildflowers shadowed by Italy's largest oil refinery, to Ithaca, southern Spain, and the mountains on the edges of Andalusia...
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