Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy Ilium by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site.

Javascript is not enabled in your browser. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. 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 Homers best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homers students. Renowned classicist Bernard Knoxs superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles translation. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homers original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. 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. If the Iliad is the worlds greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literatures grandest evocation of everymans journey though life. 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. The Odyssey by Homer Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsĭriven time and again off course, once he had plundered

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