The Iliad Of Homer – Southern African Translation By Richard Whitaker (Signed)

Richard Whitaker’s translation of the Iliad has been more than ten years in the making. His poetic translation makes use of a flexible 5-beat line, usually ten or eleven syllables long.

The translation uses many South African English words such as amakhosi (commanders), kgotla (assembly), outspan (unyoke), kloof (glen), sloot (ditch), assegai or umkhonto (spear). For readers to whom such words may be unfamiliar, a Glossary at the end of the book explains their meaning and gives the Standard English equivalents.

Although the Iliad of Homer: A Southern African Translation is aimed at the general reader of literature, it should be particularly useful as a text to teach from. This is because the translation has exactly the same number of lines as the Ancient Greek text, corresponding virtually line-for-line with the original. Which means that lecturers, or students with no Greek, can link commentaries on, or critical discussions of, the Iliad directly to the relevant lines of the translation.

Price: R800.00