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Written by Homer - Translated & performed by Stanley Lombardo - Introduction by Susan Sarandon - Unabridged Poetry - 12 COMPACT DISCS - 15 hours

Publisher, Parmenides Publishing (June 2005)

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LAS VEGAS, June 13, 2007 -- Just prior to the annual book convention in New York City, Parmenides Publishing won the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award (TM) for Best Audiobook in Adult Nonfiction for their audiobook publication of Homer's ILIAD. The Award is presented each year by the Publishers Marketing Association at BookExpo America and recognizes editorial and design excellence in independent publishing.

"Gripping . . . Lombardo’s achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task . . . He manages to be respectful of Homer’s dire spirit while providing . . . some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hard-bitten reworking of a great classic." --Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review

"When Stanley Lombardo performs Homer, we feel what Bob Dylan calls the ‘inner substance’ of great folk songs, their ‘pulse and vibration and rumbling force’. We grasp the power words had before books, movies and iPods.™ Homer taught the ancient Greeks about life, death, love and war. Now in Lombardo’s words and voice, Homer teaches us, too." —Tom Palaima, Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin

"The most daring, rapid and colloquial translation of Homer's Iliad that I know. Lombardo's taut and punchy verse conveys admirably and accurately the excitement and desperation of the battle, the urgency of the commanders, the occasional flashes of humor, the passion of Homer's narrative and the vivid and subtle humanity of his characters." —Richard Janko, University College, London

The classics are rapidly receding from public consciousness, and modern revisions of them, such as the film O Brother, Where Art Thou, are in genuine danger of never being linked to their original inspiration. Noted classicist Stanley Lombardo breathes new life into one of the most famous and beloved ancient works with an engaging and vibrant audio performance of Homer's Iliad. This state-of-the-art compact disc recording provides high-quality access to one of the greatest works in world literature.

About the Translator: Lombardo, a native of New Orleans, earned a B.A. from Loyola University, an M.A. from Tulane University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas (1976). In 1976 he joined the faculty at the University of Kansas, where he served as department chair for fifteen years and now teaches Greek and Latin at all levels, as well as general courses on Greek literature and culture.