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Название: The Iliad (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
Автор: Homer
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The Iliad
The Iliad
of Homer
Translated by Alexander Pope
With an introduction and notes by The Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.
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Wisehouse Classics
The Iliad
Homer
Translated by Alexander Pope
Executive Editor Sam Vaseghi
Published by Wisehouse Classics – Sweden
ISBN 978-91-7637-265-4
Wisehouse Classics is a Wisehouse Imprint.
© Wisehouse 2017 – Sweden
© Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photographing, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Contents
Introduction by The Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.
Pope’s Preface to The Iliad of Homer
The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon.
The Trial of the Army, and Catalogue of the Forces.
The Duel of Menelaus and Paris.
Book IV.
The Breach of the Truce, and the First Battle.
Book V.
The Acts of Diomed.
Book VI.
The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache.
Book VII.
The Single Combat of Hector and Ajax.
Book VIII.
The Second Battle, and the Distress of the Greeks.
Book IX.
The Embassy to Achilles.
Book X.
The Night-Adventure of Diomed and Ulysses.
Book XI.
The Third Battle, and the Acts of Agamemnon.
Book XII.
The Battle at the Grecian Wall.
Book XIII.
The Fourth Battle Continued, in which Neptune Assists the Greeks: The Acts of Idomeneus.
Book XIV.
Juno Deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus.
Book XV.
Argument.
Book XVI.
The Sixth Battle, the Acts and Death of Patroclus
Book XVII.
The Seventh Battle, for the Body of Patroclus. — The Acts of Menelaus.
Book XVIII.
The Grief of Achilles, and New Armour Made Him by Vulcan.
Book XIX.
The Reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon.
Book XX.
The Battle of the Gods, and the Acts of Achilles.
Book XXI.
The Battle in the River Scamander.1
Book XXII.
The Death of Hector.
Book XXIII.
Funeral Games in Honour of Patroclus.1
Book XXIV.
The Redemption of the Body of Hector.
Concluding Note.
Introduction by The Rev. TheodoreAlois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.
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