The Odyssey

Homer author Robert Fagles translator Bernard Knox editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:27th Nov '97

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The Odyssey cover

Translator Robert Fagles is a past winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. A superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, before the standard Penguin Classic B format.Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. A superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, before the standard Penguin Classic B format.

Praise for Robert Fagles Translation of The Odyssey

“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

ISBN: 9780140268867

Dimensions: 211mm x 145mm x 37mm

Weight: 617g

560 pages