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The Iliad |  | Author: Homer
Publisher: Public Domain Books
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  5 reviews
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B000JQUHX0
Publication Date: July 1, 2004
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 Translation is Everything August 19, 2010
Charles J. Budde (Saint Louis, MO USA)
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
As with the Bible, the translation or more specifically the translator is key. Not everyone can move poetry in one language into another. This is true of the Iliad, certainly true the the myriad mistranslations of the Bible. Kindle must include this information on the books being offered. There is no way to assess whether the book is worth downloading if the translator is not advertised. The Iliad and the Bible have suffered greatly at the hands of hacks and those who intentionally want to 'improve' the text. Please include the translator when presenting classic works. If it's just a reprint of someone else's work, (as so many reissues of the Bible are) than please say so. Republishing crap does not improve the smell.
 One of the Greats July 8, 2010
Cary Fields (Yuma, AZ.)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
What can I say? This is up there on one of my favorites! I had to have it on my Kindle just because of that.
 The Iliad May 10, 2010
William T. Kinkead (Arlington, VA USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
A free translation of the Iliad. Sometimes the wording is a bit tricky( I have read other versions, mind you), however, this version is free so there can be no complaining.
The ground is dark with blood September 9, 2009
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
36 out of 51 found this review helpful
With many books, translations are negligible, with two obvious exceptions, one is the Bible, and surprisingly the other is The Iliad. Each translation can give a different insight and feel to the story. Everyone will have a favorite. I have several.
For example:
"Rage--Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles,
Murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,
hurling down to the House of Death so many souls,
great fighters' souls. But made their bodies carrion,
feasts for dogs and birds,
and the will of Zeus was moving towards its end.
Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed,
Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles."
-Translated by Robert Fagles
"Sing, O Goddess, the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a heroes did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures for so were the counsels of Zeus fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles first fell out with one another."
-Translated by Samuel Butler
"Rage:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain pitched countless souls
Of heroes into Hades' dark,
And let their bodies rot as feasts
For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done.
Begin with the clash between Agamemnon--
The Greek Warlord--and godlike Achilles."
-Translated by Stanley Lombardo
"Anger be now your song, immortal one,
Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
leaving so many dead men--carrion
for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.
Begin it when the two men first contending
broke with one another--
the Lord Marshal Agamémnon, Atreus' son, and Prince Akhilleus."
-Translated by Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son of Achilleus and its devastation, which puts pains thousandfold upon the Achains,
hurled in the multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls of heroes, but gave their bodies to be the delicate feasting of dogs, of all birds, and the will of Zeus was accomplished since that time when first there stood the division of conflict Atrecus' son the lord of men and brilliant Achilleus."
-Translated by Richmond Lattimore
You will find that some translations are easier to read but others are easier to listen to on recordings, lectures, Kindle, and the like.
Our story takes place in the ninth year of the ongoing war. We get some introduction to the first nine years but they are just a background to this tale of pride, sorrow and revenge. The story will also end abruptly before the end of the war.
We have the wide conflict between the Trojans and Achaeans over a matter of pride; the gods get to take sides and many times direct spears and shields.
Although the more focused conflict is the power struggle between two different types of power. That of Achilles, son of Peleus and the greatest individual warrior and that of Agamemnon, lord of men, whose power comes form position.
We are treated to a blow by blow inside story as to what each is thinking and an unvarnished description of the perils of war and the search for Arête (to be more like Aries, God of War.)
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Why distribute this kind of text for the iPhone/Kindle software? April 5, 2009
Eclectic Reader (Honolulu, HI USA)
44 out of 119 found this review helpful
I've picked up several of these free of cheap texts.
They are virtually WORTHLESS because I cannot navigate through the texts except by paging through them consecutively.
There are no markers, no contents or index that actually works.
The Kindle software for iPhone does not do searches.
Either the software should be improved, or these kinds of texts should be marked UNUSABLE with the iPhone Kindle softward.
It's VERY frustrating.
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