Iliad (Alexander Pope translation)

Alexander Pope's translation, The Iliad of Homer, first published in six volumes between 1715 and 1720, was a verse rendering in heroic couplets of the Ancient Greek epic poem, the Iliad. For several generations it remained the standard English-language version, and though it has often been criticised for its Augustan rather than Homeric tone and infidelity to the original, it continues to win high praise as a successful epic in its own right.

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