The Odyssey

W.H.D. Rouse, Deborah Steiner

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Signet
01 May 2016

Poetry

Richly imagined by the blind bard around 900 B.C.E., Homer's story follows Odysseus on a decade-long journey as he flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the Sirens, averts his eyes from Medusa, and docks in exotic cities--ever longing to return to his wife and son.

THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME-NOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD.

Homer's Odyssey has been called ""the first novel,"" ""the first expression of the mind in literary form,"" and ""the best story ever written."" Whether fans of suspense, fantasy or human drama, readers of all ages thrill to Homer's vibrant picture of Odysseus on his decade-long journey, as he meets the lotus-eaters, cunningly flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the sexy Sirens, narrowly escapes Scylla and Charybdis, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks in exotic cities-all the while struggling to make it home to his wife and son.

Adventure on the high seas, legendary romance, tests of endurance, betrayal, heroism-the saga has all these and more, imagined by the most famous bard of all time. But, as Aristotle pointed out, ""his greatness was that he himself was nowhere to be found in his story. His characters were everywhere."" Blind and possibly illiterate, Homer has still ""in loftiness of thought surpass'd""
* any storyteller since 900 B.C.E.
*John Dryden

Introduction by: Deborah Steiner
Translated by: W.H.D. Rouse
Imprint: Signet
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 172mm, Width: 106mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9780451474339
ISBN 10: 0451474333
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 May 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Deborah Steiner is Professor of Greek at Columbia University. She was raised in England, holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of several books on Greek literature and culture of the archaic and classical period.

Reviews for The Odyssey

[Robert Fitzgerald's translation is] a masterpiece . . . An Odyssey worthy of the original. -The Nation [Fitzgerald's Odyssey and Iliad] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer's art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase. -The Yale Review [In] Robert Fitzgerald's translation . . . there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand, and this line-by-line vigilance builds up into a completely credible imagined world. -from the Introduction by Seamus Heaney

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The Odyssey

W.H.D. Rouse, Deborah Steiner

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