The Odyssey
A translation that presents Homer's poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the worldâs greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literatureâs grandest evocation of an everymanâs journey through life. Odysseusâ reliance on 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 captures the energy and poetry of Homerâs original in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savour, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knoxâs superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Faglesâs translation. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.
A translation that presents Homer's poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the worldâs greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literatureâs grandest evocation of an everymanâs journey through life. Odysseusâ reliance on 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 captures the energy and poetry of Homerâs original in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savour, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knoxâs superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Faglesâs translation. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.
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A translation that presents Homer's poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the worldâs greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literatureâs grandest evocation of an everymanâs journey through life. Odysseusâ reliance on 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 captures the energy and poetry of Homerâs original in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savour, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knoxâs superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Faglesâs translation. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.
