{"id":562,"date":"2005-11-24T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2011-11-06T23:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T06:21:57","slug":"more-on-book-design-the-best-iliad-cover-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"More on Book Design: The Best Iliad Cover Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Iliad-Homer\/dp\/0872203522\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1320646716&#038;sr=1-1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chasclifton.com\/graphics\/illiad.gif?w=625\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Walking through the enormous book exhibition at the AAR-SBL, I stopped at the booth of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parmenides.com\/\">Parmenides Publishing<\/a>, publisher of Classical philosophy and literature.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.ku.edu\/2005\/September\/Sep15\/western.shtml\">Stanley Lombardo&#8217;s<\/a> audio recordings of his translations of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iliad\">Iliad<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Odyssey\">Odyssey<\/a>, they had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0872203522?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=chascli-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0872203522\">print edition<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" cnphtuhidfngibgeqhto cnphtuhidfngibgeqhto\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0872203522\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>which I had not seen before.<\/p>\n<p>The famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D-Day_landings\">D-Day<\/a> photograph and the word &#8220;Iliad.&#8221; It stopped me cold. What a brilliant juxtaposition of image and text. It was a Nietzschean moment of &#8220;tragic pessimism.&#8221; I suppose that I will have to buy that translation.<\/p>\n<p>Give the designer an award.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (23 Dec. 05): With the book now in hand, I see that the cover design is credited to Brian Rak and John Pershing. The photo, &#8220;Into the Jaws of Death,&#8221; is simply credited to the U.S. Coast Guard, as I already knew.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/homer\" rel=\"tag\">Homer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/iliad\" rel=\"tag\">Iliad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through the enormous book exhibition at the AAR-SBL, I stopped at the booth of Parmenides Publishing, publisher of Classical philosophy and literature. In conjunction with Stanley Lombardo&#8217;s audio recordings of his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, they had the print edition which I had not seen before. The famous D-Day photograph and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,5],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-greece","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-94","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3437,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3437","url_meta":{"origin":562,"position":0},"title":"On the Necessity of the Iliad for Modern Polytheism","author":"Chas S. 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I blogged it, so now I needed to watch it, if only for the llamas. Turned off by poor reviews, I had passed over Troy, until I learned that it made a case for Bronze Age trade between Anatolia and Peru. How else did there come to be\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1223,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1223","url_meta":{"origin":562,"position":2},"title":"Dancing Homer","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Sannion, links to a site of choreographers who attempt to reconstruct ancient Greek choral dance. (Scroll down for videos.)Here dancers and drummers perform while a rhapsode declaims the Catalog of Ships from the Iliad.I suppose it's one of those interesting ideas that goes into the \"But we'll never know\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"dance\"","block_context":{"text":"dance","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=dance"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":78,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=78","url_meta":{"origin":562,"position":3},"title":"Strictly Forbidden","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 7, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"A list of laws against Pagan practice, from the late days of the Roman Empire (4th-6th centuries C.E.), compiled by Christopher Ocker of San Francisco Theological Seminary. Those Christian emperors just swung a big ax. On the other hand, the divine Julian's ways of dealing with Christians were much subtler.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9948,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9948","url_meta":{"origin":562,"position":4},"title":"The Gods Do Not Vote, So Why Are You Asking Them?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was a kid, I read some condensed version of the Iliad for young people. I did not understand the gods. After all, I was raised to be a Christian. 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