Odyssey

English

Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.

ISBN: 0140268863

EAN: 9780140268867

Category: Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval/Poetry / General/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 01/31/2003

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters presents us with Homers best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation. Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins Robert Fagles magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Times Review of Books hails as a distinguished achievement. If the Iliad is the worlds greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literatures grandest evocation of everymans journey through life. Odysseus reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once the timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homers original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knoxs superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homers students. @IthacaStateOfMind Uh oh. This cave is a giants lair. He has a taste for cheese, and my companions. He also has only one eye. Trying to keep from laughing. Got him drunk. Put a hot poker in his ONE EYE when he blacked out. That will show him if he could see. LOL. Time to leave. Damn. Poseidon pissed. How was I supposed to know One-Eye was his son? What Olympian whore did he sleep with to get an issue like that? From Twitterature: The Worlds Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less

Awards: New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null 

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Odyssey

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.41 inches

Width: 5.75 inches

Length: 8.38 inches

Weight: 23.88 oz

Pages: 560