Homer

<b>'History's greatest adventure story brought to us anew by America's greatest living classicist-this is fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive accomplishment' Lee Child<br/><br/></b><b>'This may be the best translation of <i>The Odyssey </i>yet' Edith Hall, <i>Telegraph, </i>Books of the Year</b><br/><br/><b>A magnificent, acclaimed new translation of the </b><i>Odyssey</i><b> by bestselling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn</b><br/><br/>With his <i>Odyssey</i>, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike - a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles.<br/><br/>Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic's formal qualities - meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance - and in so doing restores to Homer's master work its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer's verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.<br/><br/>The result is the richest, most precise, and most musical <i>Odyssey</i> in English, one that fully conveys its oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight and powerful themes that make Homer's work resonate some twenty-eight centuries after its composition. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Mendelsohn's <i>Odyssey</i> is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent, endlessly enjoyable masterpiece.

The Odyssey [Bok / Inbunden]

The Odyssey [Bok / Inbunden]

<b>A Penguin Classics deluxe boxed set of Robert Fagles' translations of <i>The Iliad</i> and <i>The Odyssey</i>.</b><br/><br/>Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, <i>The Iliad</i> is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic.<br/><br/>If <i>The Iliad</i> is the world's greatest war story, then <i>The Odyssey</i> is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.<br/><br/>Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.