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The Odyssey by Homer
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The Odyssey

by Homer

Series: Homer's Epic Cycle (2)

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A must-read from a literary standpoint, but not as good as India's two major epics. I will admit, it is a good classic. ( )
1 vote Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 |
Reviewed by Nell (Class of 2010) ( )
1 vote | HHS-Students | Oct 22, 2009 |
I'll never read it all, so I'll cheat and use David Bader's haiku version from One Hundred Books in Haiku (Viking 2005):

The Odyssey

Aegean forecast –
storms, chance of one-eyed giants,
delays expected ( )
  livrecache | Oct 15, 2009 |
I checked out a Playaway at the library. Very enjoyable. Loved listening to it rather than reading.
The interactions between the characters, the social graces and ritual, the sheer improbability of the adventure, it never gets old. ( )
1 vote nittnut | Oct 9, 2009 |
I'm not sure, but I think this was the edition I read & liked the best - I've read several over the years. I liked the 'full' or 'best translated' versions & the highly edited versions the least. There's a happy medium in there. The full versions have a lot characters & stuff going on that doesn't add to the story & just confuses me. When edited too much, the story loses its flavor.

The story line, plot, can't be beat. Much of the motivation of the characters seems weak or over-used, but that's only because it is the great-granddaddy of so much of our current literature, of course. ( )
  jimmaclachlan | Sep 25, 2009 |
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Epigraph
Dedication
First words
By now the other warriors, those that had escaped headlong ruin by sea or in battle, were safely home.
Quotations
Tell me Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel.
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Stanley Lombardo's translation (2006) Parmenides Publishing

The Odyssey tells of the heroic journey of Odysseus after the Trojan war. In his attempt to return home to Ithaca, this ancient hero is faced with obstacle after obstacle, mythic creature after mythic creature. This is an epic poem encompassing an epic journey as famous as it is classic.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140449116, Paperback)

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

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.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:25 -0400)

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