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No. 32 The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles 560 pages (12,898 total pages). The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of my top five favorite books. I first read an abridged addition of each when I was about 12. I now have at least six translations of each book and read them every two to three ... ... for no advantage. I'm not looking forward to reading that part.
Right now I am reading the Robert Fagles translation of The Odyssey. I read The Odyssey and The Iliad every two to three years. I enjoy them every time. I have the second Library of America Philip Dick volume on the way ... ...
lost at Sea
Typhoon
Kon-Tiki
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Sailor who fell out of Grace from the Sea
The Tempest
The Odyssey
Moby Dick
The Shipping News
The open boat
shipwrecked
mutiny on the bounty
... for The Scarlet Letter are completely broken, with random suggestions for everything from The Color Purple to The Odyssey and Little Women. Not recommendations -- suggested combinations. This is a disaster waiting to happen. ... Dracula vs the single volume bundle of Frankenstein, Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Also think The Iliad and The Odyssey vs the bundle The Iliad and the Odyssey (notice how tochstones work out).
The second feature concerns multiple authors. The bibliographic data for multiple ... ... them in their cars to hear the rest. They are usually a mix of thought-provoking, poignant and humorous.
We also love The Odyssey -- there's a fantastic audio version by Odds Bodkin done in a genuine storytelling style: unscripted, and accompanied by instruments he plays himself. It can ... ... someone asks what I read. I have probably read 2 fiction books in the last couple of years and they were The Iliad and The Odyssey. Not exactly Stephen King or James Patterson, but it was fiction.
I suppose I am the same as those who posted before me. I have an unquenchable ... ... the first time was 9 or 10 years ago. The last time I read it, I interspersed its chapters with those of The Odyssey. ... to rescue Grover from the hands of the cyclops Polyphemus and to save the tree, and thus, the camp. The story follows the Odyssey fairly closely (the visit to Circe's island was a favorite of mine).
Just like the first book of the series, this is a great, fun, and easy read for anyone ... ... school know they're never going to pray to Zeus but they can discuss The Iliad and appreciate allusions in other works to The Odyssey or St. Augustine, and I believe they need to be able to do this to be fully literate and be able to make the best use of their future educations (based on the ... ... a traveling vacation, I tend to read books related to the place I'm going, or to what I'm doing. (For instance, I read The Odyssey on a sailing trip, and John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice on a trip there.)
If I'm just hanging out at home, I'll just read whatever's there ... ... My question regards anthologies that contain multiple novels. In one sense, I do own Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey. In fact, I own several copies that appear in different world literature anthologies I have taught. I realize that it would be absurd to consider the ... ... in the Snow and Other Ozark Folk Tales was a great book - are the following:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Illiad
The Odyssey
The Analects
The Oresteia
The Oedipus Trilogy
The Art of War
The Bhagavad Ghita
The Aeneid
The Pillow Book
Beowulf
The Rubaiyat
The Di ... ... current Deptford Trilogy.
Also Fagles translation of The Aeneid in the same design as his current translations of The Odyssey and The Illiad karenmarie, I agree 100% with regards to Cold Mountain. If anyone has the urge to read that blather, pick up The Odyssey instead, or better yet, rent the movie "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?". ... all three of the 800+ page books without anything in between. Looks like a summer in the 1860's for me.
My class on The Odyssey has three more meetings.
... works are themselves a bit of retellings: Ovid's Metamorphoses and Hesiod's Theogony, as well as the Illiad, Odyssey and Aeneid, are all summaries of mythologies or stories incorporating mythologies.
But, in all cases, there are many other sources as well. ... afterwards that the list is 110, but it was too late. Also, I believe the Telegraph's list combines The Iliad and The Odyssey into one volume in the detail, but count them as two in the summary to 110.
Also, I did a more detailed comparison to include books in anthologies, ... ... Southern. Don't have an opinion, yet.
Half way through another reading of Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey for a class.
As an aside, I tried to watch the 1954 movie Ulysses with Kirk Douglas. I loved it as a kid but I only made it about ten minutes this time around. ... ... makes me think that I should re-read the Aeneid sometime soon.
I may also start re-reading either the Iliad or the Odyssey this week, inspired by my recent reading of Alberto Manguel's book about Homer and the reception of the Iliad and Odyssey in the 28 or so centuries since the poems ... An interesting hypothetical that does take some thought. Here goes
The Iliad
The Odyssey
War and Peace
The Civil War a Narrative three volumes
Robert Frost Poems, Plays, Prose
The Encyclopedia of World History
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Hammett Complete Novels
... ... Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Earthsea Cycle
The Odyssey
The Princess Bride
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
His Dark Materials
Dracula
Peter Pan
Dragonriders of Pern trilogy
The Arabian Nights
The Ill ... I'm revisiting this old thread not so much because of the recent brouhaha about imitation versus real leather bindings on The Odyssey, but because I just acquired a pristine copy of the Limited Editions Club's The Golden Ass from 1932. Unlike my other copy, mentioned in post #7 of this thread, ... Re #22: Unless my memory is faulty (very likely) The Odyssey was not one of the books in the Prospectus but was announced in a flyer (perhaps as a Castaway's Choice?). I will try to dig out my Prospectus for that year and check.
The Folio 60 seems very exhaustive in its documentation. If ... Re #22: Unless my memory is faulty (very likely) The Odyssey was not one of the books in the Prospectus but was announced in a flyer (perhaps as a Castaway's Choice?). I will try to didg out my Prospectus for that year and check.
The Folio 60 seems very exhaustive in its documentation. If ... ... and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
Tales from the Arabian Nights
Lots of folk and fairy tales from all over the world
The Odyssey in a dumbed down prose version for children
Tales from the Niebelung
French fairy tales by Perrault and others
Deidre of the Sorrows - Irish
Gudrun' ... ... edition of The Histories of Herodotus and that this was "artificial leather" quarter binding. My Iliad and my first FS Odyssey had a leather-like binding and the colophon simply stated "quarter leather." The Iliad is fine to this day, but the Odyssey felt tacky when I received it, ... ... is the case with Homeric epics: in fact it isn't even real leather, but an imitation leather. It is nice except for the Odyssey's tackiness and dye transfer problem, but I like my cloth replacement Odyssey just fine and it seems otherwise identical. ... by Lewis Carroll
Beowulf by A. Nonnie Mouse
The Wonderful World of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
The Odyssey by Homer
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Please pick JUST ONE! Th ... ... Adventures in Wonderland by Carroll
Beowulf
The Wonderful World of Oz by Baum
Peter Pan by Barrie
The Odyssey by Homer
A Midsummer's Night Dream by Shakespeare
The Fairie Queen by Spencer
I haven't read any of them.
That would be Dionysus.
The person below me prefers The Odyssey to The Iliad. ... #24: You get rid of the stickiness by getting rid of the book. Unfortunately, the quarter-leather (imitation leather) Odyssey seems to have been plagued with tackiness (pun intended), and the only thing I think you can do is to exchange it for the quarter buckram version. ... as someone suggested, with 25 points for first, 24 for second and so on, we will all have to go back and order them.
Odyssey
Iliad
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
The Complete Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales
Old Testament
The Good Soldier Svejk (Hasek)
Pride and Prejudice ... ... by Dostoyevsky
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
Great expectations by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Odessey by Homer
etc.
etc. etc. etc. :-)) ... I have recently listened to two courses from the Teaching Company, one about Homer's Iliad and the other about The Odyssey. Hugely enlightening as well as entertaining. Last week, for something lighter, I listened to Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson which I enjoyed ... ... have read over the last year.
I'm currently working on:
Aenid, the Fagles translation
Iliad, the Fagles translation
Odyssey, the Fagles translation
rich
... the way we will be in Jackson, MS., Vicksburg and New Orleans.
Taking along The Race Beat by Gene Roberts, Homer's Odyssey translated by Robert Fitzgerald for a Humanities class at the Seattle Language Academy. (I'm going to miss two classes) And finally, The World of Odysseus by ... ... personally love Paradise Lost by John Milton, but the language can be a bit difficult. Then there is The Iliad and The Odyssey, both of which can be found in very accessible translations. ... am having trouble putting it in order, other than roughly chronological order:
1. Gilgamesh
2. The Illiad
3. The Odyssey
4. The Histories
5. The Old Testament
6. The Bhagavad Gita
7. The Tale of Genji
8. Don Quixote
9. Candide
10. Tom Jones
11. Pride ... ... pages of any of her works without going numb from boredom.
My daughter has been on a rampage lately about having to read The Odyssey. She loves the story but hates the poetic format. Ditto The Iliad. Honors English is just getting started on Animal Farm - can't wait to see what she ... ... is with Walker Percy. The page says ten books, yet on his profile page it says only eight. He owned three editions of The Odyssey, apparently. I seem to share The Iliad and The Odyssey with a lot.
MrA I actually share 5 books with Alfred Deakin. It says he is from your neck of the woods :) ... of the classics Robert Fagles died March 26 at the age of 74. He is best known for his versions of The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid. Okay, the book count to date, including my list:
1) Pride and Prejudice - 4 lists
2) The odyssey - 4 lists
3) To kill a mockingbird - 3 lists
4) His dark materials - 3 lists
5) Alice in wonderland
6) The poisonwood bible - 3 lists
7) The diary of Anne Frank 3 lists
8) The I ... Start with some Epics:
Mahabharata
Gilgamesh
Odyssey
Then some major poetic anthologies:
Manyoshu
Shi Jing
Greek Anthology
Mu'allaqat
Then some religious texts:
The Vedas
The Bible
The Avesta
All written before the Shahnama or Tale of Genji, works ... My top 25 (limiting myself to literary works):
Gilgamesh
Odyssey (Homer)
Antigone (Sophocles)
Genesis
Gospel according to John
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1001 Nights
Shahnameh (Firdowsi)
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Faustus (Marlowe)
Fables (La Fontaine)
Disserta ... I think these are mostly on my Top 25 list already, but here goes:
The Bible
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Le Petit Prince
The Oresteia
Sophocles' Theban Plays
The Republic
The Arabian Nights
The Communist Manifesto It is, of course, impossible to limit it to ten, but, in no particular order:
The Iliad and The Odyssey must top the list.
The Bible, of course, and the Qu'ran.
The first novel - Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, and the poetry of Matsuo Basho.
Dante's Divine Comedy.
... ... Old English
15) A Distant Mirror Barbara Tuchman
16) Riverside Shakespeare
17) Riverside Chaucer
18) Iliad and Odyssey -- packaged together
19) By the Light of My Father's Smile Alice Walker
20) The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
21) A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
... ... I had initially tried to avoid repeat authors, but I've found that I just can't deal with having His Dark Materials above The Odyssey. So, I'm replacing the former with the latter. Sorry for the inconvenience! 52. Homecoming, Bernhard Schlink, 2008
Bernhard Schlink uses Homer's Odyssey as a vehicle to explore Peter Debauer's quest to discover an author with an intellectual approach to moral responsibility that doesn't sit well with his own ideas on justice. (****).
... of Narnia
7. Lord of the Rings
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. His Dark Materials
10. Le Petit Prince
11. The Odyssey
12. The Theban Plays
13. Romeo and Juliet
14. Anna Karenina
15, War and Peace
16. A Wrinkle in Time
17. Macbeth
18. The Aeneid
19. The Rep ... ... Myths Project recently where contemporary authors rewrote myths from literature. Margaret Atwood chose Homer's The Odyssey and wrote from Penelope's perspective in The Penelopiad.
Ali Smith rewrote the myth of Iphis from The Metamorphoses in Girl Meets Boy.
Hi Trace ... ... between the different versions of the Bible were not far removed from comparing different translations of Homer's The Odyssey. The word choices may be different in places, but it's still the same text, from the same source, and with the same essential meaning. ... Poetry
1. Faust FINISHED
2. Aeneid FINISHED
3. Paradise Lost
4. Divine Comedy
5. MacBeth
6. Gilgamesh
7. Odyssey
8. Iliad
1001 books you must read before you die
1. Birdsong FINISHED
2. Disgrace FINISHED
3. The black dahlia FINISHED
4. The virgin suicides
5. ... ... more sense. Not very much blood and just a little spooky in parts, so I'd consider it suitable for children. Similar to The Odyssey, but much shorter. ... and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Tolkien Fellowship of the Ring
Homer The Odyssey
Tolkien The Two Towers
Tolkien The Return of the King
Gaiman American Gods
Gaiman Good Omens
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Of which I've ... Storytellers have used poetry since the beginning of language to tell their stories. From GILGAMESH to THE ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY and THE AENEID, from BEOWULF and THE SONG OF ROLAND to Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES and Shakespeare's VENUS AND ADONIS -- from Milton's PARADISE LOST to T ... ... enough that without clues as to what he is talking about, you can't tell what he is talking about. So I started reading The Odyssey last night instead, but I'll get back to A Secular Age from time to time.
Robert Have you noted some similarities between the last part of The Odyssey and Jesus teachings in The Bible. Ulises lives himself among his servants, rescuing their humanity (just as Jesus does), and how Zeus at very last end of the book says that people should make peace and love each other. This ... ... ;)
sussabmax: I mis-typed; I meant to say a "feminine spin." Sorry for all of the confusion! I'll have to read the Odyssey now, because I'm not familiar with Homer's original story.
I'm with you about Atkinson - I read One Good Turn first and loved it; I then picked up Case Histo ... ... as possible. So far I've read the first 3 volumes, and I'm nearly halfway through the fourth.
1. Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey
2. Aeschylus, The Oresteia
3. Herodotus, The Histories
4. Plato, Meno
5. Plato, Gorgias
6. Sophocles, Antigone
7. Plutarch, Greek Lives
8. Pla ... ...
I am really interested in those passages. I have not read The Iliad, but now I will. Like many folk, I have only read The Odyssey. Thanks for the inspiration. I wonder if he was delibertly named Homer after works like The Odyssey and The Iliad, in which case, I suppose it's supposed to be funny.
Here's my seemingly impossible question:
If I tried to write you (mandythebookworm) to welcome you to be the 816th poster on the 800 members thread and ... Ok, I just can't get over this. Why no Illiad or Odyssey? Just because the novel hadn't been invented yet I have no idea why early classical literature is so poorly represented. ... Dickens
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Odyssey by Homer
And because I need another brick sized novel like I need a hole in my head (drumroll please...):
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy!!! ... for The Penelopiad. I love Margaret Atwood in general but I thought this was a really interesting take on the story of The Odyssey and I love the structure and ideas she put into it...like the greek chorus which is interspersed through the book similar to the ones you see in Ancient Greek ... ... more to do with the historical fiction in my library - and also, perhaps, because I also have The Aeneid, The Iliad and The Odyssey.
With Black Ships, I imagine that people who like historical fiction would enjoy it more than someone who reads a lot of non-fiction about the classical ... ... an d Hurt (or my own edition, unpublished, of course).
Last Sat., I finished flying through the Iliad and the Odyssey both the Robert Fitzgerald editions, which I do like a lot!
Now I can go back to my translating the Old Saxon Heliand from the James Cathey ... I've actually read these things many times over:
The Odyssey,
Rebecca (I re-read it every October.),
To Kill A Mocking Bird,
Wuthering Heights and
Passing.
Would adding a Common Knowledge field alter the statistics of how many people own the same work? The Iliad and the Odyssey in relation to the joint volumes The Iliad and The Odyssey are a good example. Would recommendations work as expected? ... confused about the arbitrary selections. The "novels" Aesop's Fables and Walden are in there, but no Illiad no Odyssey, no Gilgamesh. ... y
The Penelopiad by Margaret Attwood
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a verse translation by Simon Armitage
The Odyssey, the Fitzgerald translation
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Claire Morrell
Anna Karenina in the new translation
We Need to Talk about Kevin
and ... ... (nice hardback, also for cheap. And I'm reading it already and it's great, so it was *obviously a sensible purchase...)
The Odyssey, because I'd been thinking about getting it and obviously have to read it before The Penelopiad
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall because ... ... and The Tale of Sinuhe).
If they're not, I'll probably get to the Bookstore and get new copies of the Iliad and Odyssey, and read them... My current copies were used for class. AKA, they're gratuitously filled with doodles of cyclopes and stick people ... sics
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Illiad/The Odyssey?
Some of Poe's work of course.
Do we put The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Fantasy? when it was written it would have been Sci-Fi. |
