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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407066271
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

The Odyssey




The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones

Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront him? This rich and beautiful adventure story is one of the most influential works of literature in the world.

  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407066271
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

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About the authors

Robert Fagles

Robert Fagles was Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His many translations include Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus’s Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer’s Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), and Homer’s Odyssey. Robert Fagles passed away in 2008.

Praise for The Odyssey

Homer's Odyssey is still enchanting readers after thousands of years

Guardian

Surely the best and truest Odyssey in the English language

Herald Tribune

Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has the economy and soar of a poet

George Steiner

A strong salty flavour of its own. And it makes you see things

C.S. Lewis

The Homeric poems are interesting...because of the way in which they present human shocks and surprises... It is the surprising twist that war brings to the domestic...which makes Homer repeatedly shocking

London Review of Books

Of all bookes extant in all kinds, Homer is the first and best...writ from a free furie, an absolute and full soule

George Chapman