The Iliad The Fitzgerald Translation Author:Homer Anger be now your song, immortal one, — Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, — that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss — and crowded brave souls into the undergloom, — leaving so many dead men-carrion — for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done. — -Lines 1-6 — Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Robert Fitzgerald... more »'s prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that "makes Homer live as never before" (Library Journal).« less
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