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Title: The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer, D. C. H. Rieu, E. V. Homer Rieu, Peter Jones, E. V. Rieu ISBN: 0-14-044794-6 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Are You A Skilled Reader?
Comment: This book takes a skilled reader to understand the contents. Prior knowledge is needed to understand whose whom through the extensive list of characters. There are different versions of the Iliad. The one I choose is hard to follow but interesting. I recommend this book for advanced readers who carry an interest for the Trojan War. Enjoy!
Rating: 2
Summary: Kind of good
Comment: I read this for school and hated it. It was hard to understand. Now that I've re-read it I seem to like it a bit more but it still is not that good. Read the Odyssey instead
Rating: 4
Summary: Reasons why this is a Classic
Comment: I missed out on this book in my younger days, but have since made up for that lacking. Overall, I truly enjoyed this story, and the translation provided the Rieus. A comprehensive introduction is given, and the translators provide a basic summary of the action at the beginning of each book, and which lines they encompass. The latter was especially helpful between long breaks in reading.
However, from a reading standpoint, I found several of the books in the Iliad superfluous, e.g. the entire book devoted to describing where the soldiers were from and how many soldiers were fighting in the Trojan War. Parts such as this did little to nothing to advance the plot of the story.
If you seek a more academic treatment of this Homeric classic, I would highly recommend this book (5+ Stars). If you are simply interested in the story as a leisurely read, I would then suggest that you seek out another version, particularly an abriged version.
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Title: Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer, E. V. Rieu, D. C. H. Rieu ISBN: 0140449116 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian by Andrew George, Gilgamesh ISBN: 0140449191 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus, Aubrey De Selincourt, John M. Marincola ISBN: 0140449086 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: Three Theban Plays, The by Sophocles, Robert Fagles, Bernard MacGregor Walke Knox ISBN: 0140444254 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) by Ovid, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney ISBN: 019283472X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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