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

L ILIADE

L ODYSSEE

While Homers existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homers epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious beliefs, and practice of warfare as well.This publication features the Samuel Butler translation, and while it strays from the poetic style reproduced by more well known translators like Robert Fagles and Robert Fitzgerald, the vision of the epics as if they were prose found in modern novels take their best form under Butlers most capable hand.

The Iliad is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the late 9th or to the 8th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the ancient Greek language, making it one of the first works of ancient Greek literature. The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence, possible multiple authors .

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

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

To the modern reader Homer's Odyssey is perhaps the most relevant and engaging of all the classical epics. It was not by chance that James Joyce, the mentor of Samuel Beckett, chose Ulysses as the title for his own epoch-defining novel. So successful was Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad that the great English 18th-century poet then turned his hand - with the assistance of several collaborators - to the translation of Homer's second epic. A new introduction argues that Pope's Odyssey provides a fascinating window for the modern reader onto eighteenth-century attitudes and prejudices. Though it has been much neglected, Pope's Odyssey is in many respects a more interesting and stimulating text than his celebrated Iliad. Unusually for a work of this kind, the text is presented in a reader-friendly format,with generous space for personal annotations and references. Robert Shorrock teaches Classics at Eton College, Windsor. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1999 and is the author of The Challenge of Epic: Allusive Engagement in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus (Leiden, 2001). He has published a number of articles on epic poetry and the Classical Tradition, and is co-editor of the journal Greece & Rome.

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. The Iliad is paired with something of a sequel, the Odyssey, also attributed to Homer.

En el darrer any de la guerra contra Toia, Aquil·les, irat contra Agamemmon que li ha pres la captiva Briseida, es retira del combat. La seva absencia ocasiona desastres terribles i provoca la desfeta de les forces aquees. Nomes una segona i mes terrible colera, causada per la mort del seu amic Patrocle, empenyera Aquil·les de nou a la batalla. Un poema, tradut ara per primera vegada en prosa, d'una sostinguda grandesa i tambe ple d'una eterna veritat humana, dins una atmosfera de poderosa fantasia.