Stories from Homer vs Ἰλιάς: Which Should You Read?

Stories from Homer Alfred John Church · 1878 307 pages · ≈ 5 h 41 m · Challenging

Homer's epic poem The Odyssey is one of the greatest and most influential literary works ever produced. However, its complex language and dense web of allusions and metaphors can be difficult for some readers to…

Ἰλιάς Όμηρος · 1505 ★★★★☆ 4.0 350 pages · ≈ 6 h 29 m · Demanding

“And Trojans hearing the brazen voice of Aeacides, all their spirits quaked – even sleek-maned horses, sensing death in the wind, slewed their chariots round and charioteers were struck dumb when they saw that fire, relentless, terrible, burst from proud-hearted Achilles' head, blazing as fiery-eyed Athena fuelled the flames.”

This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—with…