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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 hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.

De la ira de Aquiles al funeral de Héctor: en cincuenta y un días se desarrolla la historia en la "Ilíada", la primera y más famosa epopeya de la humanidad. La "Ilíada" es la celebración, proyectada en un pasado de grandeza inconmensurable y perdida, de heroes, de batallas. Pero es tambien el poema de la eterna naturaleza problematica y contradictoria del hombre, el poema en el que los mismos heroes que realizan hazañas que seran cantadas a lo largo de los siglos se saben condenados a un destino doloroso del que no pueden escapar, en el que la gloria y la muerte son unidos en un nudo inextricable. Y despues de haber relatado el desvio de la ira y la pasion, la "Iliada" termina con la dolorosa conciencia de la fragilidad humana.Edicion integral con indice interactivo.

Adéntrate en el mundo de la antigua Grecia y descubre una de las historias épicas más fascinantes de todos los tiempos: la guerra entre griegos y troyanos propiciada por el rapto de la bella Helena a manos de Paris. Las hazañas de Aquiles, cuya ira da comienzo a la historia, la arrogancia de Agamenon, la valentia de Hector y el desarrollo de una batalla en que se involucran hombres y dioses por igual.

The Odyssey by Homer is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War.After the war itself, which lasted ten years, his journey lasted for ten additional years, during which time he encountered many perils and all his crew mates were killed. In his absence, Odysseus was assumed dead, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus had to contend with a group of unruly suitors who were competing for Penelopes hand in marriage.The Odyssey was originally composed in Homeric Greek in around the 8th or 7th century BCE and, by the mid-6th century BCE, had become part of the Greek literary canon. In antiquity, Homers authorship of the poem was not questioned, but contemporary scholarship predominantly assumes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed independently, and the stories themselves formed as part of a long oral tradition.Given widespread illiteracy, the poem was performed by an aoidos or rhapsode, and more likely to be heard than read.Crucial themes in the poem include the ideas of nostos (?; "return"), wandering, xenia (?; "guest-friendship"), testing, and omens. Scholars still reflect on the narrative significance of certain groups in the poem, such as women and slaves, who have a more prominent role in the epic than in many other works of ancient literature. This focus is especially remarkable when considered beside the Iliad, which centres the exploits of soldiers and kings during the Trojan War.

« Le seul auteur du monde qui n'ait jamais soûlé ni dégoûté les hommes », écrivait Montaigne à propos d'Homère. Et Péguy : « C'est le plus grand. C'est le patron. C'est le père. Il est le maître de tout. » Lire ou relire l'Iliade, c'est pénétrer au coeur des mythes qui ont formé l'imagination de l'Occident, constitué son code moral, ouvert ses yeux à la beauté des femmes, à la noblesse des passions, au prix de l'honneur et de la vie. La vaillance y donne la main à l'amour, le rire à la douleur, aux larmes d'Andromaque, aux cris qui accompagnent la mort des héros. À travers le personnage d'Achille, c'est tout le parfum sauvage des cultures primitives que le livre nous restitue, mais voici Hector et avec lui commence l'humanité moderne.

TExto en griego clásico con introducción y notas del P. Miguel Balagué

Introducción, traducción y notas de A. Bernabé Pajares. Revisada por E. Acosta Méndez.

L ODYSSEE

L ILIADE

L'épopée d'Ulysse pour revenir de Troie, en Asie Mineure jusqu'à sa terre natale, l'île d'Ithaque, dans la mer Ionienne, à l'ouest de la Grèce. Récit et conte merveilleux, cette épopée est, dans le monde antique, le texte fondateur source de toute culture.

La Íliada fue escrita por Homero, un poeta griego nacido en el siglo VIII a.C Al parecer, Homero era ciego y varios lugares reclamaban ser su lugar de nacimiento. Muchos consideran que pudo ser

Translator: Alexander Pope / Commentator: Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley / Illus.: Flaxmans Designs