The Loeb Classical Library: Homer, Iliad, Volume II, Books 13-24

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The Loeb Classical Library: Homer, Iliad, Volume II, Books 13-24Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homers stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, the best of the Achaeans, over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result: a chain of consequences that proves devastating for the Greek forces besieging Troy, for noble Trojans, and for Achilles himself. The poet gives us compelling

in which famous mythological heroines write letters to the men who have abandoned them

The excitement and scandal of the original case still resonates with those who might compare the ancient reality with the modern fictions of Perry Mason or LA Law

The articles and notes included in this volume have been selected for their diachronic aspect in addition to the synchronic status they had in their original context

regardless of whether we agree that they should

the revenge taken by their son Orestes

με ανοιχτό χαρακτήρα και ευγενική παρουσία

Homer’s classic poem features Odysseus’ encounters with the beautiful nymph Calypso

Section 3 provides 20 shorter passages of uniform length on mythological topics

he was appointed in 343/2 by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander

After Philip’s death in 336

The first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses contains an interesting variety of material

such as rhetoric and the military

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