
The Iliad by Homer
by Christina
Fiction — audiobook. Translated from the Greek by Stanley Lombardo. Read by Stanley Lombardo and Susan Sarandon. Parmenides Audio, 2006. Originally published 800 BC. 15 hours, 13 minutes. Library Copy. Grouped into twenty-four books (or, chapters), Homer’s saga covers a series of battles during the final year of the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states lead by King Agamemnon. The war was launched because the Trojan prince Paris took Helen from her husband and the King of Sparta, Menelaus, after […]
Categories: 2016 Reads, Audiobook, Classics, Classics Club, Europe, Fiction, Greek, Translated • Tags: Homer, Stanley Lombardo, Susan Sarandon