The Iliad
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The Iliad
Narrated by:
Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
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Narrated by:
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Derek Jacobi
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Maria Tucci
Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer’s poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad’s mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls “an astonishing performance.”
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Critic reviews
“Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful text rather than exotic relics.” –Atlantic Monthly
“Fitzgerald’ s swift rhythms, bright images, and superb English make Homer live as never before…This is for every reader in our time and possibly for all time.”–Library Journal
“[Fitzgerald’ s Odyssey and Iliad] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer’s art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase.” –The Yale Review
“What an age can read in Homer, what its translators can manage to say in his presence, is one gauge of its morale, one index to its system of exultations and reticences. The supple, the iridescent, the ironic, these modes are among our strengths, and among Mr. Fitzgerald’s.” –National Review
With an Introduction by Gregory Nagy
“Fitzgerald’ s swift rhythms, bright images, and superb English make Homer live as never before…This is for every reader in our time and possibly for all time.”–Library Journal
“[Fitzgerald’ s Odyssey and Iliad] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer’s art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase.” –The Yale Review
“What an age can read in Homer, what its translators can manage to say in his presence, is one gauge of its morale, one index to its system of exultations and reticences. The supple, the iridescent, the ironic, these modes are among our strengths, and among Mr. Fitzgerald’s.” –National Review
With an Introduction by Gregory Nagy
Extraordinary power
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I originally had this on tape and know that it was recorded way back in 1992, so I doubt we’re ever going to get a full length recording - I guess we’ll just have to get over it.
It is woeful however that Audible/Penguin are not supplying the line numbers of the sections for those wanting to read along with the text - which is my preferred way of following challenging texts such as this. However I am writing the information I have from the original recording below together with the page numbers of the Penguin Fagles translation.
To add insult to injury, the chapters of the audiobook are completely unrelated to the chapters (books) of The Iliad, or indeed anything at all. But if you have the inclination you can mark the actual chapter sections using the clips and notes feature as you go along.
The sections have an interlinking narrative (read by Maria Tucci).
Book 1: Lines 1 to 735
Book 2: Lines 57 to 572 (pp.101-115)
Book 3: Lines 1 to 540 (pp.128-144)
Book 4: Lines 489 to 630 (pp.159-163)
Book 6: Lines 283 to 630 (pp.203-213)
Book 8: Lines 638 to 654 (pp. 249-250)
Book 9: Lines 1 to 869 (pp. 251-275)
Book 11: Lines 704 to 791 (pp.316-318) Lines 909 to 1015 (pp.322-324)
Book 14: Lines 187 to 421 (pp.374-381)
Book 16: Lines 1 to 1017 (pp. 412-441)
Book 18: Lines 1 to 717 (pp. 467-487)
Book 19: Lines 1 to 503 (pp. 488-502)
Book 20: Lines 554 to 569 (p.519)
Book 21: Lines 1 to 434 (pp. 520-532)
Book 22: Lines 1 to 606 (pp. 541-558)
Book 24: Lines 1 to 944 (pp. 588 - 614)
5* to Fagles and Jacobi - 1* to Audible/Penguin
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