Chapman's Homer

The Iliad, Vol. 1

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Edited by Allardyce Nicoll

Princeton University Press

Due/Published January 1999, 741 pages, paper

ISBN 0691002363

This volume presents the original 1611 text of George Chapman's translation, tapping into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the "Iliad"'s warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.