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Erin D | 1 comments Hello! Fings crossed I’m doing this properly… I am hoping to get a book’s summary updated with the Librarians’ grace/assistance.

The Iliad is translated into many languages, absolutely, and I don’t want to detract from that (or the fact it was written in a different language altogether). However, with this specific edition, the book is translated into English and the summary on the Goodreads page for the book seems to be written in Aramaic (at least, according to my phone). Would it be possible to get the summary revised into English to match the contents of the specific edition?

Thanks for reading my request!

Goodreads book link:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...

English summary on Amazon’s commercial page (for reference):
When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)—critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic—the most revered war poem of all time.
The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world—the fierce beauty of nature and the gods’ grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson’s hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem’s deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even “complicated,” characters—both human and divine.

The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity’s most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson’s Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.


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