"With this translation of the Iliad, employing an English version of the powerful meter that gave life to Homer's original, Rodney Merrill enables modern readers to experience, better than ever before, both great Homeric epics as products of the long tradition of epic song. The rhythms of Merrill's meter are even more important for the Iliad, making repetitions meaningful, illuminating the construction of speeches and Homeric similes, and giving an impetus that embodies the "war-lust" of the combatants in battle scenes. In his introduction, the translator also shows how the music of the Homeric poems may have influenced the foundations of Western culture."--BOOK JACKET.
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