Euphorbus strikes at him and misses only to be killed by Menelaus. (Book 17, line 5) The Trojan Euphorbus comes to take the body but King Menelaus will not yield. The result of 3,000 years of story-telling, Homer’s epic tale of the fall of Troy has resonated with every age and every human conflict- this is the Iliad at its most electrifying and vital. The Iliad Book 17 Menelaus observes the death of Patroclus and runs to guard his body 'like a mother cow lowing over a calf'. Caroline Alexander’s virtuoso translation captures the rhythms and energy of Homer’s original Greek while making the text as accessible as possible to a modern reader, accompanied by extensive extra material to provide a background to the poem. It is available from the Guardian bookshop for £20, including free p&p. She is the author of the best-selling The Endurance, and The Bounty, and other works of. Above all, this is a tale of the devastation, waste and pity of war. Caroline Alexander’s translation of the Iliad is published by Vintage, priced £25. Caroline Alexander is a British author, classicist and filmmaker. Caroline Alexander 38 books150 followers Caroline Alexander has written for The New Yorker, Granta, Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian, Outside, and National Geographic. This is the Iliad– an ancient story of enduring power magnetic characters defined by stirring and momentous speeches a panorama of human lives locked in a heroic struggle beneath a mischievous or indifferent heaven. Greek ships decay, men languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a desperate people await the next turn of fate.
New York: Ecco, an Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Gabrielson, Max (2016) Caroline Alexander, The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander.
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