Penguin Select Classics: The Iliad

Homer's account of the Trojan War, and of Achilles and his anger during it, arrives here in a 400-page Penguin Select Classics edition. The Iliad stands at the head of the Western epic tradition, and its standing rests on more than age: the poem's handling of honour, grief and mortality is what has kept it in print and in classrooms. This edition places the text in Penguin's Select Classics line, a series aimed at readers who want a recognised work in a straightforward paperback rather than a heavily annotated scholarly volume. The length is typical for a complete rendering of the epic. Things worth knowing: • Homer's epic of the Trojan War in a 400-page edition • Issued within the Penguin Select Classics series • A foundational text for reading Western literature in sequence • Themes of honour, rage and mortality that still carry weight For literature students, classics readers and anyone filling gaps in a reading list, this edition is stocked by Boipoka.