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The Odyssey - Paperback By Homer - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 0140268863
- Book Title
- Odyssey : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Epic, General, Poetry, Ancient & Classical
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 21.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
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The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic 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 Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning 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 Book Review hails as "a distinguished achievement." If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's 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 a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. 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. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles's translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents 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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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140268863
ISBN-13
9780140268867
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63596
Product Key Features
Book Title
Odyssey : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Epic, General, Poetry, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
21.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pa4037
Notes by
Knox, Bernard
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Reviews
"[Robert Fitzgerald's translation is] a masterpiece . . . An Odyssey worthy of the original." The Nation "[Fitzgerald's Odyssey and Iliad ] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer's art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase." The Yale Review "[In] Robert Fitzgerald's translation . . . there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand, and this line-by-line vigilance builds up into a completely credible imagined world." from the Introduction by Seamus Heaney
Table of Content
The Odyssey Introduction Introduction The Spelling and Pronunciation of Homeris Names Maps: 1. Homeric Geography: Mainland Greece 2. Homeric Geography: The Peloponnese 3. Homeric Geography: The Aegean and Asia Minor Homer: The Odyssey Book 1: Athena Inspires the Prince Book 2: Telemachus Sets Sail Book 3: King Nestor Remembers Book 4: The King and Queen of Sparta Book 5: Odysseus-Nymph and Shipwreck Book 6: The Princess and the Stranger Book 7: Phaeacia's Halls and Gardens Book 8: A Day for Songs and Contests Book 9: In the One-Eyed Giant's Cave Book 10: The Bewitched Queen of Aeaea Book 11: The Kingdom of the Dead Book 12: The Cattle of the Sun Book 13: Ithaca at Last Book 14: The Loyal Swineherd Book 15: The Prince Sets Sail for Home Book 16: Father and Son Book 17: Stranger at the Gates Book 18: The Beggar-King of Ithaca Book 19: Penelope and her Guest Book 20: Portents Gather Book 21: Odysseus Stings his Bow Book 22: Slaughter in the Hall Book 23: The Great Rooted Bed Book 24: Peace Notes Translator's Postscript Genealogies Textual Variants from the Oxford Classical Text Notes on the Translation Suggestions for Further Reading Pronouncing Glossary
Copyright Date
1996
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
96-017280
Dewey Decimal
883/.01
Series
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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- Feb 27, 2019Top favourable review
The Odyssey The Fagels translation, one great read!
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- Oct 12, 2017
Would make a great movie
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- Nov 01, 2014
A classic story with superb translation
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the greatest story ever told
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