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1) The Iliad
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Classics - St. Charles Public Library
March Books on Tap: Greek Mythology
Novels adapted to Graphic Novels
March Books on Tap: Greek Mythology
Novels adapted to Graphic Novels
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When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)-critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s...
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The Iliad and The Odyssey are two epic poems from Ancient Greece which have become cornerstones of Western literature. This stunning jacketed hardback brings together these two works in accessible prose translations, ideal for those wanting to be thrown into the action of these thrilling tales. In The Iliad, the Greek's best warrior Achilles has abandoned the war with the Trojans on a mission of revenge. Only the death of his best friend Patroclus...
3) The Iliad
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"More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced off in an epic battle that rewrote history--the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer's legendary account of this decade-long ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this thoroughly researched and artfully rendered graphic novel, renowned illustrator Gareth Hinds captures all the grim glory of Homer's epic. Dynamic illustrations...
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""Your life at every instant up for-- / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips" writes Christopher Logue in his original adaption of Homer's Iliad, the uncanny "translation of translations" that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" (The New York Review of Books). Logue's account of Homer's Iliad is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of Homer's tale...
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From the Booker Prize-winning Pat Barker, author of The Silence of the Girls ( An important, powerful, memorable book --Emily Wilson, translator of The Odyssey), a retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of the women who endured it. Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war--including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the...
7) La Ilíada
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Spanish translation of "The Iliad". Greek epic poem by Homer.
8) Ilium
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"The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars--observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family--and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth--as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate, perhaps terminate, the...
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No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey-with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Ulysses and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods-are familiar to most people because they are so pervasive. They have fed our imaginations for over two and a half millennia,...
12) The Iliad
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"Gillian Cross's fine retelling of Homer's epic story captures all the heroism and savagery of war and shows why the 'Iliad' has been called the first tragedy and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization"--Front jacket flap.
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Patroclo, un joven príncipe torpe, sigue a Aquiles a la guerra, sin saber que los años siguientes pondrán a prueba todo lo que han aprendido, todo lo que aprecian. Y que, antes de que esté listo, se verá obligado a entregar a su amigo en manos de Fate. Ambientada durante la Guerra de Troya.
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything...
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Great books of the Western world volume 4
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Poem by Homer describing the wanderings of Odysseus after the fall of Troy as he encounters gods and monsters.
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