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Title	:	The Odyssey
Author	:	Homer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 541 pages
Published	:	November 30th 2006 by Penguin Classics (first published -800)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War. World War II. Cultural. Italy. Audiobook

The Odyssey Paperback | Pages: 541 pages

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Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Times Review of Books hails as "a distinguished achievement." If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, 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. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. -- Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation.

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Original Title:	Ὀδύσσεια
ISBN:	0143039954 (ISBN13: 9780143039952)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Odysseus, Penelope (wife of Odysseus), Helen of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Telemachus, Minerva, Polyphemus, Agamemnon

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Thrilled to have finally read this!

Audiobook read by Claire Danes ..I finished this Audiobook weeks ago - but the physical book - Im throwing in the towel. I own the physical book - but I just couldnt get myself to stay with it. I liked listening to Claire Danes ... I was fully engaged at the time ...(she was helpful for me staying interested )...but Im already forgetting everything... I need to borrow another persons brain!

I started this as I was told it is essential reading if I ever want to give a shot at reading Ulysses. I was a bit apprehensive and spent a long time deciding on which translation to choose. Finally it was Stephen's review that convinced me to go for the Robert Fagles' version. I have no way of judging how good a decision that was.This translation, by Robert Fagles, is of the Greek text edited by David Monro and Thomas Allen, first published in 1908 by the Oxford University Press. This two-

It's impossible not to smile when you start reading such a classic and, after only the first few pages, you realize and completely understand why it's regarded as one of the most important works in literature. I'm always a little anxious when I tackle such important and renowned books for being afraid of not comprehending or loving them - War and Peace and Don Quixote, for example - as they seem to deserve. Not that I'm obligated to like them, but I always feel such buzz comes for a reason and I

"Okay, so here's what happened. I went out after work with the guys, we went to a perfectly nice bar, this chick was hitting on me but I totally brushed her off. Anyway we ended up getting pretty wrecked, and we might have smoked something in the bathroom, I'm not totally clear on that part, and then this gigantic one-eyed bouncer kicked us out so we somehow ended up at a strip club. The guys were total pigs but not me, seriously, that's not glitter on my neck. And then we totally drove right by

I mean, it's no Ulysses.

"So Pallas spake, and breathed into his frame Strength irresistible." Why so powerful a narrative?- is it the mythological world? this tête-a-tête way of living between gods and men? ...the voyages?the longing for Home ...?UPDATEThis is sad.https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/02...