Best Classical Antiquity Collection's (Grapevine edition)

The best classic antiquity collections in this set are The Iliad and The Odyssey The darkest chapter of the Trojan War is described in Homers Iliad. The most legendary Greek warrior Achilles who was humiliated by his leader Agamemnon refuses to engage in combat. But after the Trojan Hector murders Patroclus a close friend of Achilles he rushes back into combat to exact revenge even though he knows that doing so will guarantee his own quick demise. The Odyssey according to the Guardian is a poem of remarkable pleasures: it is a salt-caked storm-tossed wine-dark treasure of tales of many twists and turns like life itself. One of the earliest and best pieces of Western literature is the epic story of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War. The sea god Poseidon and other natural and supernatural dangers including shipwrecks conflicts monsters and his unyielding hate force Odysseus to employ his bravery and intelligence to reach his country and conquer the challenges that still await him there. Augustine who is regarded as one of the most significant figures in the early Western church had dabbled with a number of philosophies before accepting Christianity at the age of 31. St. Augustine continues to be a strong proponent of orthodoxy and the episcopacy as the only channel for the distribution of saving grace today. The Poetics has shaped how people view drama. Malcolm Heath provided the translation notes and introduction. Using examples from the plays of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides the Poetics brought such fundamental terms as mimesis (imitation) hamartia (error) and katharsis (purification) into literary criticism. Aristotle describes how intricacy and resolution recognition and reversals are key components of the most powerful tragedies. During the time leading up to Boethiuss cruel execution THE CONSOLATION was written. It is a conversation between the sick prisoner and his nurse Philosophy that alternates between text and verse. He regains his health and achieves enlightenment as a result of her teachings on the nature of fortune and pleasure good and evil fate and free will. The Consolation was widely read in mediaeval Europe and Chaucer and Dante both incorporated some of his concepts into their writings.