Publisher's Synopsis
Steven Shankman provides scholarly critical apparatus for this version of Pope's classic 1743 edition of Homer's Iliad. Pope's notes on his translation of the Iliad into heroic couplets are given here in their entirety.
About the Publisher
In January 1946, the Penguin Classics list was launched with E. V. Rieu's translation of The Odyssey. The series now consists of over 800 titles including the best in English, American, European, classical and non-western literature and an extensive range of philosophy, religion, art, history and politics titles.
