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The Iliad: Unabridged for Audible

By: Homer, F L Light - translator
Narrated by: Jack Nolan
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Frederick Lazarus Light's resolve to write a greater Iliad in English than Homer composed in Greek is manifest.

This translation impersonates Homeric Greek. It runs with Achilleus and like man-shattering Hector in the shock of arms is resolutely sharp. As unrelenting as sublimity, not yielding lyrically, unprosaically vindicating Homer's vision, the brightest labor has been attempted and is brought over as a consummate attempt.

Homer's rapid words of music afforded more hedonic comprehension to the Greek and Roman world than any other book. His idiom of compact mellifluence should be translated into acidic currents by a bitter stylist of Homeric character and care.
©2011, 2013 F L Light (P)2014 Frederick Lazarus Light
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brilliant but difficult

do not attempt this as your first iliad
i have read about ten translations so i understand what is supposed to be going on, but still there has been quite a lot that has been unintelligable, which seems to be by design
however....having finished pope i had run out of new iliad stuff to investigate. there is loads of extra detail here
i imagine i will have to listen to this at least three times before i get a good sense of what exactly is going on
it may well be that this is the best book in the english language. i will let you know in about a year once ive wrapped my head round it

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