{"product_id":"9781429958240","title":"The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnger be now your song, immortal one,\u003cbr\u003eAkhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, \u003cbr\u003ethat caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss\u003cbr\u003eand crowded brave souls into the undergloom, \u003cbr\u003eleaving so many dead men-carrion\u003cbr\u003efor dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.\u003cbr\u003e-Lines 1-6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad \u003c\/i\u003eare compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that \"makes Homer live as never before\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a new foreword by Andrew Ford.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139377217776,"sku":"9781429958240","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429958240_p0.jpg?v=1763749657","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429958240","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}