The Anger of Achilles

Robert Graves

earliest edition we have, 1959 House of Stratus, 2002 paperback

Essentially, this is Robert Graves's version of Homer's Iliad, with some accent-shifting, e.g. he believes that there is a lot of dry humour, sarcasm and satire present in the original which we miss by taking it too literally - for instance, Nestor really is a bumbling old fool, and Agamemnon a pompous manager-figure, who doesn't know how to handle people. All Graves does is bring that out, changing nothing, just let...

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The Anger of Achilles paperback · 2002 · House of Stratus · 9780755105984
The Anger Of Achilles audiobook · 1989 · Books on Tape, Inc. · 9780736615808
The Anger of Achilles audiobook · 1959 · Books On Tape · 9785557086479

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