This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- Emily Wilson's masterful translation of The Iliad-"readable, relevant, and from the heart" (Washington Post)-accompanied by her introduction, note on translation, explanatory footnotes, and book-by-book summaries.
- Excerpts from ancient sources and analogues, most also translated by Wilson, that highlight The Iliad's place in a long line of stories about the Trojan War.
- A collection of postclassical responses to the text that illustrate its enduring impact in poetry and fiction.
- A selection of comparative translations, highlighting different stylistic approaches to rendering Homer's epic from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries.
- Five critical essays essential to studying the Iliad, written by Simone Weil, Robert Fowler, David Konstan, Naoíse Mac Sweeney, and Sheila Murnaghan.
- Five maps of Greece and Troy, three genealogical charts, a glossary with a pronunciation guide, and a list of suggested further readings.
