The Iliad of Homer (The Library of Liberal Arts)

Homer; Rees, Ennis (trans.)

ISBN 10: 0195068254 / ISBN 13: 9780195068252

Published by Oxford Univ Pr, NY, 1991

About this Item

First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Oxford Univ Pr., 1991, first printing. 8vo., xii+529pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles. Light splash stain on top edge of page block. Very good, clean, bright, unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 010841

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Iliad of Homer (The Library of Liberal Arts)
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, NY
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195068254
• ISBN 13: 9780195068252
• Binding: Hard
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary & Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

This translation of Homer's Iliad by the poet and classicist Ennis Rees attempts to be both faithful to the original and accessible to the modern reader.

About the Author

About the Translator:
Ennis Rees is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of The Tragedies of George Chapman: Renaissance Ethics in Action and of two volumes of verse, The Song of Paul Bunyon and Tony Beaver and Riddles, Riddles Everywhere. He is also the translator of an edition of The Odyssey.