Homer - The Iliad - Stanley Lombardo

Hackett Publishing, 1997
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Excerpts:

• 1.1:

          Rage:
                   Sing, Goddess, Achilles’ rage,
  Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
  Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls
  Of heroes into Hades’ dark,
  And left their bodies to rot as feasts
  For dogs and birds, as Zeus’ will was done.
    Begin with the clash between Agamemnon—
  The Greek warlord—and godlike Achilles.
    Which of the immortals set these two
  At each other’s throats?

  
  

Reviews:

• “Yo, Achilles”, Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times
• “Stanley Lombardo (trans.), The Iliad”, Dana L. Burgess, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• “Like a Meteorite”, James Davidson, London Review of Books