The Odyssey

Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox , Bernard Knox

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Penguin
18 May 2011

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Poetry by individual poets

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

The inspiration for the major motion picture The Return, starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche

A Penguin Classic

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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.

By: Homer
Notes by: Bernard Knox
Introduction by: Bernard Knox
Translated by: Robert Fagles
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 396g
ISBN: 9780143039952
ISBN 10: 0143039954
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 18 May 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. Both works attributed to Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Robert Fagles is Arthur W. Marks 1919 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.