The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Penguin, 1. 11. 1997 - 560 strán (strany) 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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... poem , to its econ- omy , and he writes a supple English that's especially pleasing when read aloud . . . . The Odyssey is a journey on which Robert Fagles is ex- cellent company . " -The Boston Globe " Translators have inherited from ...
... poem , to its econ- omy , and he writes a supple English that's especially pleasing when read aloud . . . . The Odyssey is a journey on which Robert Fagles is ex- cellent company . " -The Boston Globe " Translators have inherited from ...
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... poem new . . . . This new version is a wonderful addition to that history . Fagles has made the lines fresh again . It's as if the dew's still on them . " -William Fiennes , The Observer " A memorable achievement . . . Mr. Fagles has ...
... poem new . . . . This new version is a wonderful addition to that history . Fagles has made the lines fresh again . It's as if the dew's still on them . " -William Fiennes , The Observer " A memorable achievement . . . Mr. Fagles has ...
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... poetic momentum does more than merely move the great battle scene in the hall to its dramatic close ; it keeps the reader always on top of the action with a vantage point to see the subtlety of the actors . " -Peter Stothard , The Times ...
... poetic momentum does more than merely move the great battle scene in the hall to its dramatic close ; it keeps the reader always on top of the action with a vantage point to see the subtlety of the actors . " -Peter Stothard , The Times ...
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... poems of Bacchylides . His translations of Sophocles ' Three Theban Plays , Aeschylus ' Oresteia ( nominated for a ... Poets , an award from The Translation Center of Columbia University , and the New Jersey Humanities Book Award ) are ...
... poems of Bacchylides . His translations of Sophocles ' Three Theban Plays , Aeschylus ' Oresteia ( nominated for a ... Poets , an award from The Translation Center of Columbia University , and the New Jersey Humanities Book Award ) are ...
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... Poems from the Pictures of Van Gogh TRANSLATIONS Bacchylides : Complete Poems ( with Adam Parry ) Aeschylus : The Oresteia ( with W. B. Stanford ) Sophocles : The Three Theban Plays ( with Bernard Knox ) Homer : The Iliad ( with Bernard ...
... Poems from the Pictures of Van Gogh TRANSLATIONS Bacchylides : Complete Poems ( with Adam Parry ) Aeschylus : The Oresteia ( with W. B. Stanford ) Sophocles : The Three Theban Plays ( with Bernard Knox ) Homer : The Iliad ( with Bernard ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Introduction | 3 |
The Spelling and Pronunciation of Homeric Names | 65 |
Mainland Greece | 68 |
Homeric Geography The Peloponnese | 70 |
Homeric Geography The Aegean and Asia Minor Inset Troy and Vicinity | 72 |
The Odyssey | 75 |
Athena Inspires the Prince | 77 |
The Loyal Swineherd | 301 |
The Prince Sets Sail for Home | 319 |
Father and Son | 338 |
Stranger at the Gates | 354 |
The BeggarKing of Ithaca | 375 |
Penelope and Her Guest | 390 |
Portents Gather | 410 |
Odysseus Strings His Bow | 424 |
Telemachus Sets Sail | 93 |
King Nestor Remembers | 107 |
The King and Queen of Sparta | 124 |
OdysseusNymph and Shipwreck | 152 |
The Princess and the Stranger | 168 |
Phaeacias Halls and Gardens | 179 |
A Day for Songs and Contests | 191 |
In the OneEyed Giants Cave | 211 |
The Bewitching Queen of Aeaea | 230 |
The Kingdom of the Dead | 249 |
The Cattle of the Sun | 271 |
Ithaca at Last | 286 |
Slaughter in the HaU | 439 |
The Great Rooted Bed | 455 |
Peace | 468 |
NOTES | 487 |
Translators Postscript | 489 |
Genealogies | 497 |
Textual Variants from the Oxford Classical Text | 501 |
Notes on the Translation | 503 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 517 |
Pronouncing Glossary | 521 |
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