This unique new translation of The Iliad from a leading Homeric scholar is a work of poetic art that renders the voices of Homer's narrator and characters with vividness, variety, and drama. It is the perfect choice for oral recitation. Read The Iliad aloud with friends or classmates and discover the power of Homer's masterpiece as it flows from your own lips.

Bruce Heiden is Professor Emeritus of Classics at The Ohio State University, where he taught for almost 40 years. His many research publications on Greek and Latin poetry include Homer's Cosmic Fabrication: Choice and Design in the Iliad (Oxford University Press 2008). Vignettes from this translation have previously appeared in Literary Imagination, Southwest Review, and the Norton anthology The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present.