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The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer

81 reviews

alyxinthestars's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Violence, and War

jemappellecat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lauramcc7's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War

scoobygirl93's review against another edition

slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

bazer63's review against another edition

adventurous reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Homer goes on a lot of tangents but some of these tangents are surprisingly entertaining.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and War

Moderate: Sexism and Slavery

goemonxiii's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I know it's slow, and I know it's a war epic, but it's great nonetheless. There's a reason why we read The Iliad despite it being thousands of years old, and it's because it's a good book. Homer is very talented when it comes to the words he chooses to use, the characters are memorable and interesting, and Achilles in particular shines throughout. If you liked The Song of Achilles, please follow it up with The Iliad. If you like Achillean romance or stories, please read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

a lot of main characters die, sometimes the injuries can be graphic, not really a spoiler but King Agamemnon steals Achilles' girlfriend in the beginning and is annoying to deal with throughout the poem

xandra_lyn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This was the translation I read in college, and I wanted to reread it before reading Emily Wilson's translation. It's an ok, but rather difficult to understand at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and War

Minor: Rape and Trafficking

Trafficking and rape: although neither of these words are present in the text, slave girls are given and taken as gifts and are explicitly slept with. It isn't glorified or condemned - it is a fact in their world that this will happen to conquered nations.

qqjj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Grief, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

quipo's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

A big book about the trojan war, it was kind of a drag in the beginning and middle, but it picks up near the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

bootrat's review against another edition

Extremely boring and repetitive. Apart from small mentions of the gods, and them arguing about meddling in the war, the whole book seems to be lists of names and relatisns, and who killed whom. "Person 1, son of x from [place], fought person 2, son of y from [place], and killed him like this. Then person 1 fought person 3, son of z from [place], and killed him like this." 
I got 2.5 hours in, and it seemed like this was going to be the entire book! Maybe I'll revisit it at some point, but as a physical book rather than an audiobook so I can skim through it and see if anything more actually happens.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War