The Rage of Achilles

Through the genius of Homer's Iliad, the Trojan war and the rage of Achilles have fired imaginations and informed myth for nearly three thousand years. This timeless, powerful pwem conveys the horror and the heroism of men and gods, wrestling with towering emotions amidst devastation and destruction, as they march toward an inexorable fate. The Rage of Achilles is taken from Robert Fagles's translation of the Iliad, which is available in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Bernard Knox.