#ROBERT FAGLES ODYSSEY SERIES#

Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Fagles brings the Odyssey so near, one wonders if the Hollywood adaption can be far behind. Fagles's work is a triumph because he has not merely provided a contemporary version of Homer's classic poem, but has located the right language for the timeless character of this great tale. It is often said that every age demands its own translation of the classics. The story itself has never seemed more dynamic, the action more compelling, nor the descriptions so brilliant in detail. Fagles captures the rapid and direct language of the original Greek, while telling the story of Odysseus in lyrics that ring with a clear, energetic voice. Robert Fagles's translation is a jaw-droppingly beautiful rendering of Homer's Odyssey, the most accessible and enthralling epic of classical Greece. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

#ROBERT FAGLES ODYSSEY SERIES#

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. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.ДЇor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. 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.В This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. In the myths and legends retold here,ДЇagles 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. 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. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. '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 ReviewВ hails as 'a distinguished achievement.' 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. The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles

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