The Iliad (Pope Translation)

The Iliad (Pope Translation) - audiobook HOMER (c. 8th cen - c. 8th cen), translated by Alexander POPE (1688 - 1744) Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets by Alexander Pope is considered by some the greatest act of translation in English. Its power sweeps the reader along through an epic tale that begins with the wrath of Achilles and ends with the burial of Hector, breaker of horses. (Introduction by Steve Perkins) Genre(s): Classics (Antiquity), Historical Fiction, Epics Language: English (FULL Audiobook)