书名：Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid Box Set荷马史诗3本盒装
作者：Virgil；Homer
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2013
语种：英文
ISBN：9780147505606
商品尺寸：12.2 x 15 x 22.1 cm
包装：盒装
Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid Box Set《荷马史诗3本盒装》收录了古希腊、古罗马早期的传世文学作品，共有如下3册书：

1. The Iliad《伊利亚特》
2. The Odyssey《奥德赛》
3. The Aeneid《埃涅阿斯纪》

其中，前两部作品《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》为古希腊诗人荷马的叙事史诗，被并称为“荷马史诗”；后一部作品《埃涅阿斯纪》则为古罗马诗人维吉尔的著作。这三本书都是非常经典的文学作品，对后世有着深远的影响。

本套装为Penguin Classics推出的英文版本，由美国教授罗伯特·菲格尔斯（Robert Fagles）翻译，内容完整，装帧精美，具有收藏价值和纪念意义。

A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature
ONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles's interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon. The Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid are collected here for the first time in a specially designed gift box. Each volume contains a superb introduction by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.
1. The Iliad《伊利亚特》
本书是古希腊诗人荷马的叙事史诗，是重要的古希腊文学作品，堪称西方人类古代文明的奇葩。全诗以特洛伊战争为题材，以希腊联军主帅阿伽门农与将领阿喀琉斯的争吵为核心，叙述了特洛伊战争结束前50天的精彩故事。《伊利亚特》是诗体小说的开山鼻祖，更是后人了解古希腊人民生活状态的一面镜子。
Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amid devastation and destruction. Perhaps the Western world’s first and best storyteller, Homer draws the reader in with bated breath. His masterful tale contains some of the most famous episodes in all of literature: the curse on the prophet Cassandra; the siege of Troy; the battle between Hector and Achilles; the face that launched a thousand ships; and of course, the deception of the Trojan Horse. To this day, the heroism and adventure of The Iliad have remained unmatched in song and story.

2. The Odyssey《奥德赛》
本书是古希腊诗人荷马的叙事史诗，为古希腊不朽的英雄史诗、西方古典文化基石。《奥德赛》延续了《伊利亚特》的故事情节，全诗共24卷，12110行，叙述特洛伊战争后，希腊联军英雄、伊萨卡王奥德修斯在海上漂流十年，历经艰难险阻，终于返回故国，夫妻团圆的故事。奥德修斯勇敢机智，在特洛伊战争中献木马计，希腊联军终于获胜。回国途中历尽艰险，先后制服独眼巨神和女巫等，又被女仙卡鲁普索留居岛上7年，后来向先知泰瑞西阿斯问路，始得重返故乡。当时其妻裴奈罗珮正苦于无法摆脱各地求婚者的纠缠，他于是乔装乞丐，将求婚者全部射死，终于阖家团聚。
Homer’s Odyssey has been called “the first novel,” “the first expression of the mind in literary form,” and “the best story ever written.”  Whether fans of suspense, fantasy or human drama, readers of all ages thrill to Homer’s vibrant picture of Odysseus on his decade-long journey, as he meets the lotus-eaters, cunningly flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the sexy Sirens, narrowly escapes Scylla and Charybdis, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks in exotic cities—all the while struggling to make it home to his wife and son.

3. The Aeneid《埃涅阿斯纪》
本书共分12个卷，叙述英雄埃涅阿斯在特洛伊城被希腊军队攻陷后离开故土，历尽艰辛，到达意大利建立新的城邦的故事（其后代建立罗马），以当地部落首领图尔努斯与埃涅阿斯决斗被杀结束。
After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas - Augustus' legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also set out to provide rome with a literature equal to that of ancient Greece. It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his seven-year journey - to Carthage, where he tragically fell in love with Queen Dido; then to the underworld, in the company of the Sybil of Cumae; and finally to Italy, where he founded Rome. It is a story of defeat and exile, of love and war, hailed by Tennyson as 'the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man'.
荷马（Homer，约公元前9世纪~前8世纪），相传为古希腊的游吟诗人，生于小亚细亚，创作了不朽史诗《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》，统称《荷马史诗》。关于荷马其人，学界目前没有确切证据证明荷马的存在，所以也有人认为他是传说中被构造出来的人物。而关于《荷马史诗》，大多数学者认为是当时经过几个世纪口头流传的诗作的结晶。荷马在口头诗歌的基础上旁征博引、推陈出新，用诗人的情怀及文字的魅力将特洛伊战争描绘得精彩绝伦。凭借杰出的艺术才能，他被但丁赞誉为“诗人之王”。
《荷马史诗》语言简练，情节生动，形象鲜明，结构严谨，是西方首部重要的文学作品，影响极为深远。荷马也被后人誉为与但丁、莎士比亚、歌德齐名的“世界四大诗人”之一。
Homerwas probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems.

维吉尔（前70—前19），古罗马奥古斯都时期著名诗人，主要作品有《牧歌》、《农事诗》、《埃涅阿斯纪》（一译《伊尼德》）等。 
Virgil,born in 70 B.C., is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid. He earned great favor by portraying Augustus as a descendant of the half-god, half-man Aeneas. Although Virgil swore on his deathbed that The Aeneid was incomplete and unworthy, it has been considered one of the greatest works of Western literature for more than two thousand years.