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The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Fagles, Robert
Knox, Bernard
Homer

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0143039954
ISBN13: 9780143039952
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Nov 1 2006
Pages: 560
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.12 Depth: 7.76
Language: English
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, hailed as the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English (Garry Wills, The New Yorker)

Now a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan

A Penguin Classic Black-spine Paperback

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's magnificent translation of The Odyssey, literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival against divine and natural forces on his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.

Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey, enhanced with maps, genealogy tables, and pronunciation guides, has been the touchstone translation of Homer's epic for millions of readers. In the myths and legends retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. With an introduction and textual commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox, the Fagles translation of The Odyssey will continue to captivate the general reader and scholar alike.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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