Books by Homer

The rage of Achilles (played by Brad Pitt in the movie Troy) provides the basis for one of the most powerful war stories ever told. Anger. Jealousy. Betrayal. Revenge. The original is far more poetic and complex than the new film version. This elegantly designed new edition is taken from the 1898 translation by Samuel Butler. The electronic text is available free through Project Gutenberg: www.promo.net/pg/

The 'red Macmillan' Iliad inthe edition of W. Leaf, which had served since the 1880s, was replacedin 1978 and 1984 by the two-volume edition of M.M. Willcock.

First published in the outstanding and long-running 'red Macmillan'series in 1948 and revised in 1958 and 1962 Stanford's secondvolume of the "Odyssey" has remained the standard edition used byupper school and university students to guide their early reading ofthe epic.

"The Odyssey" tells the story of the long and painful return of Odysseus from the Trojan War to his homeland of Ithaka. This new translation by Martin Hammond complements his translation of "The Iliad". It aims to capture as closely as possible both the simplicity and the intensity of Homer's epic.