The OdysseyPenguin, 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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... Penelope to bed . " - Newsweek “ To re - create a world where everything is living , down to the chairs and table - linens , is very nearly as difficult as to create it . Fagles does this with triumphant assurance ; every arrowhead ...
... Penelope to bed . " - Newsweek “ To re - create a world where everything is living , down to the chairs and table - linens , is very nearly as difficult as to create it . Fagles does this with triumphant assurance ; every arrowhead ...
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... Penelope and Her Guest BOOK 20 : Portents Gather 410 424 BOOK 21 : Odysseus Strings His Bow BOOK 22 : Slaughter in the Hall 439 455 BOOK 23 : The Great Rooted Bed Peace 468 BOOK 24 : NOTES Translator's Postscript 489 497 Genealogies ...
... Penelope and Her Guest BOOK 20 : Portents Gather 410 424 BOOK 21 : Odysseus Strings His Bow BOOK 22 : Slaughter in the Hall 439 455 BOOK 23 : The Great Rooted Bed Peace 468 BOOK 24 : NOTES Translator's Postscript 489 497 Genealogies ...
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... Penelope asks him to choose some other theme , she speaks of his knowledge of the " works of the gods and men that singers celebrate " ( 1.389 ) . And in the Iliad , when the ambassadors from Agamemnon come to plead with Achilles to ...
... Penelope asks him to choose some other theme , she speaks of his knowledge of the " works of the gods and men that singers celebrate " ( 1.389 ) . And in the Iliad , when the ambassadors from Agamemnon come to plead with Achilles to ...
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... Penelope , Eurycleia , Antinous , Eurymachus — as well as a group of minor players : Medon , the servant who helped rear Telemachus ; Dolius , the servant of Laertes ; Halitherses and Mentor , two old Ithacans who disapprove of the ...
... Penelope , Eurycleia , Antinous , Eurymachus — as well as a group of minor players : Medon , the servant who helped rear Telemachus ; Dolius , the servant of Laertes ; Halitherses and Mentor , two old Ithacans who disapprove of the ...
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... Penelope that should have made her joyful , could prevail against the passion I felt to win experience of the world , of human vice and worth . " He sets sail for Gibraltar and launches out into the Atlantic , following the sun “ to the ...
... Penelope that should have made her joyful , could prevail against the passion I felt to win experience of the world , of human vice and worth . " He sets sail for Gibraltar and launches out into the Atlantic , following the sun “ to the ...
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Athena Inspires the Prince | 77 |
Telemachus Sets Sail | 95 |
King Nestor Remembers | 109 |
The King and Queen of Sparta | 125 |
OdysseusNymph and Shipwreck | 155 |
The Princess and the Stranger | 168 |
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 |
Slaughter in the Hall | 453 |
The Great Rooted Bed | 455 |
Phaeacias Halls and Gardens | 181 |
A Day for Songs | 191 |
In the OneEyed Giants Cave | 213 |
The Bewitching Queen of Aeaea | 231 |
The Kingdom of the Dead | 251 |
The Cattle of the | 273 |
Ithaca at Last | 287 |
The Loyal Swineherd | 301 |
The Prince Sets Sail for Home | 319 |
Peace 468 | 483 |
NOTES 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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Achilles alive answered arms Athena beside Book bring brought called clear close comes course crew dark daughter dead dear death deep earth Eumaeus eyes face father feast fighting fire gave gifts give goddess gods Greek guest halls hands hard head hear heart hold Homer husband Iliad inside island Ithaca keep killed king Laertes land leave lives look lord lovely master Menelaus mind mother never night Odysseus offer once pain palace Penelope Phaeacians poem Poseidon prince queen quickly reached replied rest round rule sail ship sleep soon spirit story stranger suitors swift ship tears Telemachus tell things Tiresias told took Troy true turn waiting whole wife wind wine women young Zeus