The odyssey of Homer

by Homer

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00008th - 7th c. BCE

1965 (English: Lattimore)

1967 (English: Cook)

1980 (English: Shewring)

1996 (English: Fagles)

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National Book Award finalist (Translation, 1968) Richmond Lattimore

Time's Best Books of the Year (5, Fiction, 1996) Robert Fagles

Epigraph

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For Lynne
Fagles translation (1996)

First words

Sing to me of a man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.
(translation by Robert Fagles, 1996)

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Ted Hughes (Fagles' 1996 translation)

Richard Jenkyns (Fagles' 1996 translation)

Peter Green (Fagles' 1996 translation)

Garry Wills (Fagles' 1996 translation)

Josephine Balmer (Fagles' 1996 translation)

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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.

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