The Iliad of Homer – Andrew Lang (1909)

S$48.00

The Iliad of Homer – Andrew Lang (1909)

S$48.00

Title: The Iliad of Homer done into English prose

Author: Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, Ernest Myers

Publisher: Macmillan and Co., 1909.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Fair. Some rubbing to cover, front hinge slightly cracked, edges and endpapers tanned. Pages clean, binding tight. Inscription to ffep. 503pp., app 8.5″x5.5″.

The Iliad is an epic poem, traditionally attributed to Homer.

Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege. Along with the Odyssey, also attributed to Homer, the Iliad is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the eighth century BC.

(from wikipedia)