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The ties that bind

An absorbing new translation of the Iliad
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March 2024, no. 462

Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox

Allen Lane, $65 hb, 451 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

W.W. Norton & Company, $65.95 hb, 820 pp

The ties that bind

An absorbing new translation of the Iliad
by
March 2024, no. 462

Fans of the Iliad have been well served recently. Late last year saw the arrival of a new translation by Emily Wilson, whose earlier translation of the Odyssey (2018) was greeted with near universal acclaim, and it was joined by a new book about Homer and the composition of the Iliad by one of the leading scholars of Greek history, Robin Lane Fox. Both works encourage us to rethink our connections to this epic poem and its value for contemporary life. Set against a backdrop of clashing Greek and Trojan forces, what does this poem about the fatal sequence of events that emerges from a disagreement between two feuding warlords have to teach us?

Homer and His Iliad

Homer and His Iliad

by Robin Lane Fox

Allen Lane, $65 hb, 451 pp

The Iliad

The Iliad

by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

W.W. Norton & Company, $65.95 hb, 820 pp

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