Dating back to the ninth century BC, Homer's eternal poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of humans and gods.

They fought with towering emotions and struggled with destruction and destruction, because it inevitably led to the Trojan War Painful, tragic ending.

The famous classicist Bernard Knox pointed out in his superb introduction that although Iliad's violence is harsh and ruthless, it is related to the image of civilized life and the strong desire for peace. coexist.Robert Fagles combines the skills of poets and scholars.

He has won the PEN/Ralph Mannheim Medal for Translation and the 1996 American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize for Literature, bringing the power of contemporary language to This enduring heroic epic.

He maintains the dynamic and rhythmic music of Homer's poems, and evokes the influence and nuance of Iliad's fascinating repetitive phrases, which Peter Levi calls "amazing performances."