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The Iliad (Books 7-12)

(ancient Greece) Homer Luo Niansheng Wang Huansheng

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It tells the story of the Greek coalition's siege of Troy, a city in Asia Minor. It centers on the quarrel between the Greek coalition commander Agamemnon and the general Achilles, and focuses on what happened fifty days before the end of the war. This book is a Greek-Chinese parallel version and is the latest in the "Japanese Classics Series".

The Odyssey (books 1-6)

(ancient Greece) Homer Luo Niansheng Wang Huansheng

168K0

"The Odyssey" is an ancient Greek-Chinese version, the latest in the "Rizhi Classical Series". The Greek text of this book adopts the version of "The Odyssey" in Loeb's Classical Series, which is the authoritative revised version that has been in use for nearly a hundred years. The immortal heroic epic "The Odyssey" created by the ancient Greek poet Homer, together with the "Iliad", is called the "Homeric Epic" and is recognized as the ancestor of Western literature and the source of Western culture. The poem has 24 volumes and a total of 12,110 lines. It tells the story of Odysseus, the main general of the Greek army and King of Ithaca, who returned home after ten years of wandering after the Trojan War. It not only vividly reproduces the panoramic view of ancient Greek society, but also is an important historical material for studying early society. It also has extremely high literary and artistic value and is the immortal legacy of ancient Greece to mankind.