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The Iliad

Author
Homer
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
14 hours 16 minutes
ISBN
9781802568400
Published
26 August 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Homer
  • Odyssey
  • Iliad
  • epic
  • journey
  • troy
  • war
  • ancient
  • history
  • adventure

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Description

A few weeks at Troy in the ear: Achilles’ anger, Patroclus, Hector, the gods leaning in, Priam in the tent kissing the hands that killed his son. Homer’s Iliad, unabridged English, is not the whole war — it is honour priced in bodies, a hero who weeps, a city that waits. The night raid, Briseis, the ships. The oldest European war poem, spoken as grief inside glory. Oral epic as it was meant: names, rage, and the washing of the dead at Troy’s wall.

Author

Homer gave the ancient world — and ours — its greatest stories of war and homecoming. In the Iliad, a quarrel among warriors opens into a meditation on mortality, friendship, and the pity of battle. In the Odyssey, a king fights his way back to Ithaca and to a household waiting under siege. The poems move with oral music: catalogues and formulas, sudden similes, and scenes of startling intimacy amid grandeur.

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