The Odyssey / Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Homer.

Contributor:

Fagles, Robert.

Standardized Title:

Odyssey. English

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry, Greek--Translations into English.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)--Poetry.

Odysseus.

Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

541 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 1997.

Summary:

When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece. Now Robert Fagles presents us with the Odyssey, Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the arduous wanderings of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces is at once the human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are magnificently 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, 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.

Contents:

Introduction: Spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names

Maps: Homeric geography : Mainland Greece

Peloponnese

Aegean and Asia Minor

Inset: Troy and vicinity

Homer: Odyssey : Athena inspires the prince

Telemachus sets sail

King Nestor remembers

King and queen of Sparta

Odysseus- Nymph and shipwreck

Princess and the stranger

Phaeacia's halls and gardens

Day for songs and contests

In the one-eyed giant's cave

Bewitching queen of Aeaea

Kingdom of the dead

Cattle of the sun

Ithaca at last

Loyal swineherd

Prince sets sail for home

Father and son

Stranger at the gates

Beggar-king of Ithaca

Penelope and her guest

Portents gather

Odysseus strings his bow

Slaughter in the hall

Great rooted bed

Peace.

Notes:

"This [pbk.] edition contains minor revisions of the text"--P. 496.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0140268863

9780140268867

OCLC:

37908303