The Anger of Achilles
  • Published: 13 January 2009
  • ISBN: 9780140455601
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $30.00
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The Anger of Achilles

The Iliad

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Robert Graves's gripping, vigorous retelling of The Iliad takes a revered classic back to its roots as popular entertainment

War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after a row with his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan king Hector kills Achilles’ beloved friend, he plunges back into the battle to seek his bloody revenge – even though he knows it will bring about his own doom.

Robert Graves’s gripping, vigorous retelling of The Iliad portrays quarrelling kings and tarnished heroes, who leave suffering women behind them and are watched over by capricious gods and goddesses. It takes a revered classic back to its roots as popular entertainment.
  • Published: 13 January 2009
  • ISBN: 9780140455601
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:

About the author

Homer

Homer, name traditionally assigned to the author of the ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY, the two major epics of Greek antiquity. Nothing is known of Homer as an individual, and in fact it is a matter of controversy whether a single person can be said to have written both the ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY. Linguistic and historical evidence, however, suggests that the poems were composed in the Greek settlements on the west coast of Asia Minor sometime in the 8th century BC.

Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.