The release date for the English version of 'The Odyssey' by
Homer is Oct 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Sing to me of the guy, Muse, the one whose many detours and twists drove him repeatedly off track after he had pillaged Troy's sacred heights.
This marks the start of the amazing Odyssey translation by Robert Fagles.
If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's ten-year journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is both a timeless human tale and a unique moral endurance test, as he must rely on his cunning and skill to survive in his meetings with supernatural and natural forces.
In the myths and legends that are 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.
Stronger than ever is Fagles' translation thanks to the excellent Introduction and textual commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox, which offers fresh perspectives and background information for both scholars and casual readers.
This Odyssey will enthrall a new generation of Homer's pupils and thrill classicists as well as the general public.
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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 new modern-verse translation.