荷马，传说为古希腊盲诗人。生平和生卒年月不可考。相传记述公元前12至前11世纪特洛伊战争及有关海上冒险故事的古希腊长篇叙事史诗《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》，即是他根据民间流传的短歌综合编写而成。据此，他生活的年代，当在公元前10到前9、8世纪之间。

"The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language."--William Arrowsmith "Certainly the best modern verse translation."--Gilbert Highet "This magnificent translation of Homer's epic poem . . . will appeal to admirers of Homer and the classics, and the multitude who always wanted to read the great "Iliad" but never got around to doing so."--"The American Book...(展开全部)

"The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language."--William Arrowsmith "Certainly the best modern verse translation."--Gilbert Highet "This magnificent translation of Homer's epic poem . . . will appeal to admirers of Homer and the classics, and the multitude who always wanted to read the great "Iliad" but never got around to doing so."--"The American Book...(展开全部)

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the "Iliad" in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation--the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's "Iliad" is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century--while lea...(展开全部)

This engaged, provocative reading of the ancient classic examines The Republic's philosophical meaning in the context of the text's dramatic, narrative, and mythical dimensions. The overall structure of the work is analyzed to offer insight into the key questions Plato presents about the human soul, human community, proper objects of worship and reverence, the nature of philoso...(展开全部)

[作者] 金介甫（Jeffrey C. Kinkley） 美国汉学家，退休前为美国纽约圣若望大学历史系教授。1972年开始研究沈从文。1977年以论文《沈从文笔下的中国》获得哈佛大学博士学位。金介甫著《沈从文传》是公认的沈从文研究里的重要作品之一。 [译者] 符家钦（1919—2002） 当代著名翻译家，四川合江人。1943年毕业于中央大学（今南京大学），1978年起任中国大百科全书出版社英文组组长。1984年因病截瘫致残，但他在轮椅上依旧以一年出一书的进度与命运抗争，先后出版过著作及译著24部，共计600多万字。他所翻译的《沈从文传》一书一直深受读者喜爱。

[作者] 金介甫（Jeffrey C. Kinkley） 美国汉学家，退休前为美国纽约圣若望大学历史系教授。1972年开始研究沈从文。1977年以论文《沈从文笔下的中国》获得哈佛大学博士学位。金介甫著《沈从文传》是公认的沈从文研究里的重要作品之一。 [译者] 符家钦（1919—2002） 当代著名翻译家，四川合江人。1943年毕业于中央大学（今南京大学），1978年起任中国大百科全书出版社英文组组长。1984年因病截瘫致残，但他在轮椅上依旧以一年出一书的进度与命运抗争，先后出版过著作及译著24部，共计600多万字。他所翻译的《沈从文传》一书一直深受读者喜爱。

If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral enduran...(展开全部)

The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must test his bravery and native cunning to the full if he is to reach his homeland safely and ...(展开全部)

Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative...(展开全部)