Stanley Lombardo is professor of classics at the University of Kansas, USA. His translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally published by Hackett Publishing Company in 1997 and 2000, respectively.
Match The Iliad by Homer, read by Stanley Lombardo (12 CDs. retail
ed. Parmenides Audio. 2006. ISBN 978-1-930972-08-7. $42), to a long
straight drive with nothing much to see so that you can safely sink
into the meter. Homer’s dark meditation features the rage and
regret of Achilles during the Trojan War, at the siege of Ilium.
The epic was meant to be recited aloud, and Lombardo’s spellbinding
narration acts as a time capsule, hurling listeners back to the
heroic age and placing them in the presence of a master
storyteller. His voice slips into chant, rises and crests with the
terrible violence of battle, and shifts into pure incantation as
Homer transitions into the emotional caverns of the story"". -
Library Journal
“Great poetry is best heard, not just read… Lombardo’s voice is
wonderfully resonant and expressive… and together with the original
music, beautifully evokes the world of the Trojan War and Odysseus’
journey home.”
- The Bloomsbury Review, Nov 2006
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