The Iliad

The text has been revised into contemporary American English while preserving much of the syntactical structure and style. The reading is plain and direct, but still noble; you will find no attempt at casual, much less slangy, diction. This version of the Iliad is more than just a revision—it is a new version based on that older one.

A new prose rendering of Homer’s Iliad by Wesley J. Callihan, containing all 24 books of this great epic.

Includes:

• All 24 books of Homer’s Iliad, in a new prose rendering by Wesley J. Callihan based on the 1883 translation by the British classicists and poets Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers.
• Foreword by Dr. Dale Grote
• Preface
• Introductions
  • The Importance of the Iliad
  • The Historical Christian Perspective
  • The Historical Background of the Story
  • The Story of the Trojan War
  • Between the Iliad and the Odyssey 
  • The Form and Context of Homeric Epic
  • The Content and the Structure of the Story
  • Major Characters in the Iliad 
  • How to Read the Iliad
  • What to Read Next
  • The Translation
• Maps of the Iliad