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Book Description: The classics are rapidly receding from public consciousness, and modern revisions of them, such as the film O Brother, Where Art Thou, are in genuine danger of never being linked to their original inspiration. Noted classicist Stanley Lombardo breathes new life into one of the most famous and beloved ancient works with an engaging and vibrant audio performance of Homer's Iliad. This state of the art compact disc recording provides high quality access to one of the greatest works in world literature. 'Before Greece had tragedy, comedy, history, or even formal schools, there was Homer. Greeks, young and old, learned about the realities of life by hearing separate episodes from Homer sung at public festivals, and then remembering the stories through the power of song. What they remembered was what mattered most. These epics offered bluntly honest views of life. Think of that as you are listening to Stanley Lombardo. When he performs Homer, we feel what Bob Dylan calls the inner substance' of great folk songs, their pulse and vibration and rumbling force'. We grasp the power words had before books, movies and iPodsTM. Homer taught the ancient Greeks about life, death, love and war. Now in Lombardo's words and voice, Homer teaches us, too.' Tom Palaima University of Texas at Austin 'Gripping . . . Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task . . . He manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing . . . some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic.' Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review

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