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Epic poem.
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English translation of first line: Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Tales from the Kingdom of Force
2011
single work
prose
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 25 March vol. 21 no. 5 2011; -
Priam Suspect
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian , 19 December 2009; (p. 16)
— Review of Ransom 2009 single work novel Holland posits that 'it takes a special kind of foolhardiness to go head to head with Homer' and that Malouf's work disappoints as 'neither true enough to Homer, nor sufficiently untrue to him either'. -
Troy Revisited : Homer's Iliad and David Malouf's Ransom
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Monthly , May no. 45 2009; (p. 48-53) The proposition is a simple as the first verse of Genesis, and marginally more believable: in the beginning, Homer invented literature. He did so - if, that is, he was a single person - dualistically, in two poems that look ahead to different literary futures. The Iliad is our primordial epic, celebrating heroic violence and the glory of combat. The Odyssey, which begins when the war in Troy is over and follows its wily, wayward protagonist on his journey home to Ithaca, begets the alternative genre of romance, a form not end-stopped by death like the epic but open to accident and adventure, free to go on exploring indefinitely. Writers ever since have added footnotes to Homer, whether cynically summarising the Trojan War as a lecherous farce, like Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida, or cramming Odyseus's decade-long tour of the Mediterranean into a single day in Dublin, as Joyce did in Ulyssses. -
Men and Gods Behaving Badly
2009
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , March vol. 4 no. 2 2009; (p. 3-4) David Malouf draws comparisons between the war-torn world of Homer's The Iliad and the violence of the modern world. -
The Road Warrior and the Fall of Troy
1987
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Literature/Film Quarterly , vol. 15 no. 3 1987; (p. 146-150)
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Men and Gods Behaving Badly
2009
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , March vol. 4 no. 2 2009; (p. 3-4) David Malouf draws comparisons between the war-torn world of Homer's The Iliad and the violence of the modern world. -
Troy Revisited : Homer's Iliad and David Malouf's Ransom
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Monthly , May no. 45 2009; (p. 48-53) The proposition is a simple as the first verse of Genesis, and marginally more believable: in the beginning, Homer invented literature. He did so - if, that is, he was a single person - dualistically, in two poems that look ahead to different literary futures. The Iliad is our primordial epic, celebrating heroic violence and the glory of combat. The Odyssey, which begins when the war in Troy is over and follows its wily, wayward protagonist on his journey home to Ithaca, begets the alternative genre of romance, a form not end-stopped by death like the epic but open to accident and adventure, free to go on exploring indefinitely. Writers ever since have added footnotes to Homer, whether cynically summarising the Trojan War as a lecherous farce, like Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida, or cramming Odyseus's decade-long tour of the Mediterranean into a single day in Dublin, as Joyce did in Ulyssses. -
Priam Suspect
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian , 19 December 2009; (p. 16)
— Review of Ransom 2009 single work novel Holland posits that 'it takes a special kind of foolhardiness to go head to head with Homer' and that Malouf's work disappoints as 'neither true enough to Homer, nor sufficiently untrue to him either'. -
Tales from the Kingdom of Force
2011
single work
prose
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 25 March vol. 21 no. 5 2011; -
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The Beauty of the World
United Kingdom (UK)
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British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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1973
7952364
1973
single work
radio play
A radio play about Helen of Troy.
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