The Odyssey
Published on 30. November 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
560 pages
978-0-14-303995-2 (ISBN)
Description
When Robert Fagles' translation of The Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece. Now one of the great translators of our time presents us with The Odyssey, Homer's best-loved poem, recounting Odysseus' wanderings after the Trojan War.
With wit and wile, the 'man of twists and turns' meets the challenges of gods and monsters, only to return after twenty years to a home besieged by his wife's suitors. In the myths and legends retold in this immortal poem, Fagles has captured the energy of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom.
With wit and wile, the 'man of twists and turns' meets the challenges of gods and monsters, only to return after twenty years to a home besieged by his wife's suitors. In the myths and legends retold in this immortal poem, Fagles has captured the energy of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Robert Fagles Translation of The Odyssey"Wonderfully readable... Just the right blend of roughness and sophistication."-Ted Hughes
"Robert Fagles is the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English."-Garry Wills, The New Yorker
"Mr. Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time and yet timeless."-Richard Jenkyns, The New York Times Book Review
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-303995-2 (9780143039952)
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Homer was 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. Both works attributed to Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original.
Robert Fagles was Arthur W. Marks 1919 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Robert Fagles was Arthur W. Marks 1919 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.