ILIADA OF OMIROS IN TRANSLATION BY GEORGE PSYCHOUNTAKIS

The translation of the Iliad by G. Psychountakis completes, after the translation of the Odyssey, which he published in 1979, the performance of the Greek epic which is the masterpiece of world poetry of all times. This translation is the only one that preserves the comfort and magic of Homeric speech. It is not a learned translator who speaks here, but the simple man who keeps his linguistic instinct intact and recreates the Homeric epic as he felt and assimilated it. A translation with precision and courtesy, where the Cretan language of Kornaros, the mantinada and the radical link with the Homeric language, and the rhyme not only does not distort the text, but enriches it, preserving the poetic element, the soul of the Homeric original.