Homer: The Complete Works (Annotated)
The complete Homer in one volume — both epics and the lost third of the corpus that nearly every edition leaves out.
Most “complete” editions of Homer give you the Iliad and the Odyssey and stop there. They are not complete. Antiquity knew a larger Homer: alongside the two great epics stood the Homeric Hymns, the Epigrams, and the mock-epic Battle of Frogs and Mice. This Erato Press edition restores them all, so that for once the reader holds the whole of what the ancient world meant by the name of Homer.
THE COMPLETE TRADITIONAL CORPUS:
• THE ILIAD — the wrath of Achilles, the war for Troy, the deaths of Hector and Patroclus: the founding poem of Western literature
• THE ODYSSEY — the ten-year homeward voyage of Odysseus, the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, and the return to Ithaca
• THE HOMERIC HYMNS — the thirty-three hymns to the gods, among the oldest Greek poetry to survive
• THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE — the comic mock-epic, antiquity’s own parody of Homer
• THE EPIGRAMS — the short verses ascribed to the poet
THE TRANSLATIONS are the dignified Victorian prose of the Lang school — Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers for the Iliad (1882); Butcher and Lang for the Odyssey (1879); Evelyn-White for the minor works — chosen for their fidelity to the Greek and for the grave, almost biblical cadence in which they render Homer’s antiquity. This is Homer in English that sounds as old and as weighty as the original, free of the liberties of verse translation.
A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION, “The Making of Homer,” examines the Homeric Question — whether one poet or many composed these works, and how an oral tradition became the fixed text we read — and a Life of the Poet sets out what little, and how much, can be said of Homer himself.
For the reader who wants all of Homer in one dignified, readable, unabridged volume — the two immortal epics and the complete corpus that surrounds them — at the price of none.
Homer: The Complete Works (Annotated)
The Iliad · The Odyssey · The Homeric Hymns · The Battle of Frogs and Mice · The Epigrams — Complete and Unabridged, with a Critical Introduction
By: Homer
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Length: 34 hrs and 45 mins
Release date: 06-21-26
Language: English
Format and Bitrate: M4B@62 kbps
Size: 948.15 MB
