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The Odyssey

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By Homer
Introduction by Bernard Knox
Translated by Robert Fagles
Notes by Bernard Knox

By Homer
Introduction by Bernard Knox
Translated by Robert Fagles
Notes by Bernard Knox

By Homer
Introduction by Bernard Knox
Translated by Robert Fagles
Notes by Bernard Knox

By Homer
Introduction by Bernard Knox
Translated by Robert Fagles
Notes by Bernard Knox

By Homer
Introduction by Bernard Knox
Translated by Robert Fagles
Notes by Bernard Knox

By Homer
Introduction by Bernard Knox
Translated by Robert Fagles
Notes by Bernard Knox

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    About The Odyssey

    Robert Fagles’s stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line

    A Penguin Classic

    The Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation of everyman’s journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert 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. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer’s students.

    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.

    About The Odyssey

    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.

    About The Odyssey

    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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    About Homer

    Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.

    About Homer

    Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.

    About Homer

    Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Fiction | Classic Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Oct 31, 2006 | 560 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143039952

    Category: Poetry | Fiction | Classic Fiction

    Paperback | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Nov 01, 1997 | 560 Pages | 5-5/8 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780140268867

    Category: Poetry | Fiction | Classic Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Nov 01, 1997 | 560 Pages | ISBN 9781101221846

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    Praise

    Wonderfully readable… Just the right blend of roughness and sophistication. (Ted Hughes)

    Robert Fagles is the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English. (Garry Wills, The New Yorker)

    Mr. Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time and yet timeless. (Richard Jenkyns, The New York Times Book Review)

    Table Of Contents

    The OdysseyIntroduction

    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

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