If the Odyssey of Homer deserved two translations by Carles Riba – and later versions by Joan Alberich, Joan F. Mira and Pau Sabaté–, the Iliad, the other great epic poem by the author from ancient Greece was also tackled on two occasions by Manuel Balasch, on one occasion by Joan Alberich, on another by Montserrat Ros and on a final one, for the moment, by Pau Sabaté. Montse Barderi, novelist, journalist, philosopher and collaborator of the 3Cat program La Selva,recommends the version by Montserrat Ros (1944-2018), where he worked for more than a decade while, in parallel, editing the books of the Bernat Metge Foundation.

The Iliad which has just published Adesiara, one of the young publishing houses that has persistently bet on new translations of Greek and Latin classics -Hesiod, Lucian of Samosata, Euripides, Sallust, Plautus, Ovid and a long etcetera- is special for many reasons.