{"product_id":"the-iliad","title":"The Iliad","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Wilson’s Iliad is clear and brisk, its iambic pentameter a zone of enchantment.” ―Ange Mlinko, London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom critics lauded it as cultural landmark that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/em\u003e roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world―the fierce beauty of nature and the gods’ grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson’s hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem’s deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even “complicated,” characters―both human and divine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity’s most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson’s \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Homer, Emily Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44995964534831,"sku":"9781324076148","price":1699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781324076148.jpg?v=1772272067","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/the-iliad","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}