<div>"The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language."--William Arrowsmith<br><br>"Certainly the best modern verse translation."--Gilbert Highet <br><br>"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 <i>Iliad</i> but never got around to doing so."--<i>The American Book Collector</i><br><br>"Perhaps closer to Homer in every way than any other version made in English."--Peter Green, <i>The New Republic</i><br><br>"The feat is decisive that it is reasonable to foresee a century or so in which nobody will try again to put the <i>Iliad</i> in English verse."--Robert Fitzgerald<br><br>"Each new generation is bound to produce new translations. [Lattimore] has done better with nobility, as well as with accuracy, than any other modern verse translator. In our age we do not often find a fine scholar who is also a genuine poet and who takes the greatest pains over the work of translation."--Hugh Lloyd-Jones, <i>New York Review of Books</i><br><br>"Over the long haul Lattimore's translation is more powerful because its effects are more subtle."--<i>Booklist</i><br><br>"Richmond Lattimore is a fine translator of poetry because he has a poetic voice of his own, authentic and unmistakable and yet capable of remarkable range of modulation. His translations make the English reader aware of the poetry."--Moses Hadas, <i>The New York Times</i><br><br><br></div>