The First Six Books of the Iliad of Homer
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Simms, Edward) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The First Six Books of the Iliad of Homer: Translated Into Fourteen-Slyllable Verse: With Preface and Notes, and a Map of Greece in the Homeric Age I owe it to the memory of a dear departed brother, Mr. Charles S. Simms, of Manchester, to state, on the forefront of this work, that he was the first to suggest to me the metre of this Translation as the best the English language offers for such a purpose. Indeed he did much more. He himself translated the First Book of the Iliad into this fourteen-syllable metre, and published his Translation in a quarto pamphlet at Manchester in the year 1866. It is a singularly accurate version by one, to whom the mastery of the Greek language was not the attainment of youth, but was acquired in after-life, as a recreation and solace, amidst the active occupations of a busy commercial career. Its chief defect is a frequent sacrifice of the English to the Greek idiom, arising from a too-anxious desire for a very exact rendering of the original. His version of the First Book is the basis of the one now offered, in which I have been solicitous to retain, amidst all the alterations, the substance and features of my dear brother´s work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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