Reviews for Iliad

The average rating for Iliad based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-31 00:00:00 Nick Dipasquale While the format is well intentioned, there is so much translation provided next to the Greek text in this book that after a while students aren't really translating Homer at all. Instead, they are hunting down Draper's translations on the facing page. In their initial encounter with Homer I would much prefer to have students look words up and try to make sense out of the more challenging passages than to have it done for them constantly by a textbook editor. My expectations were high on my first look at this book; after using it once I quickly came to feel that it simply wasn't helping my students grow in their understanding of Homer's Greek. So I don't use it anymore.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-27 00:00:00 Daniel Walker I cannot recommend this book enough. It's a wonderful textbook or do-it-yourself for reading Homer in Greek. It requires a knowledge of Attic Greek, but it helps the reader with vocabulary and parsing. Very helpful!