The Iliad
by Homer
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When John Keats first read Chapman's translation of the epics of "deep-brow'd Homer," he was so overwhelmed, so overcome with the joy of discovery, that he compared his experience to finding "a new planet."When you join Professor Elizabeth Vandiver for these lectures on the Iliad, you come to understand what enthralled Keats and has gripped so many readers of Homer. Indeed, it is probably true to say that only the Bible rivals Homer for sheer depth and scope of cultural and literary influence.Professor Vandiver makes it vividly clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Iliad remains not only am...
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- THE ILIAD OF HOMER,
- Literally Translated, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES.
- THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY, B.A.
- PREFACE.
- THE ILIAD OF HOMER.
- BOOK THE FIRST.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE SECOND.
- ARGUMENT.
- THE CATALOGUE OF THE SHIPS.
- BOOK THE THIRD
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE FOURTH
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE FIFTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE SIXTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE SEVENTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE EIGHTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE NINTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE TENTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE ELEVENTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE TWELFTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE FOURTEENTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE FIFTEENTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE SIXTEENTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE SEVENTEENTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE EIGHTEENTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE NINETEENTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE TWENTIETH
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE TWENTY-FIRST.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE TWENTY-SECOND.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE TWENTY-THIRD.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK THE TWENTY-FOURTH.
- ARGUMENT.
- END OF THE ILIAD.
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