Browsing: Epic Poetry

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A New York Times bestselling author translates this epic tale of glory, fate, and the siege of Troy. “This powerful and readable version of the Iliad is modern without sacrificing the accuracy, energy, or the seriousness of the original” (Library Journal).

Milton’s great seventeenth-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by…

Virgil’s Aeneid, inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem at the heart of Western…