{"product_id":"the-odyssey-paperback","title":"The Odyssey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHomer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Fagles\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eBernard Knox\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHomer\u003c\/b\u003e 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. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Fagles \u003c\/b\u003e(1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN\/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles's \u003ci\u003eThree Theban Plays\u003c\/i\u003e, Aeschylus's \u003ci\u003eOresteia\u003c\/i\u003e (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, and Virgil's \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard Knox\u003c\/b\u003e (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include \u003ci\u003eThe Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEssays Ancient and Modern \u003c\/i\u003e(awarded the 1989 PEN\/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 7.76 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42684560277567,"sku":"9780143039952","price":22.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f61a7b3320a033ee18051381a46d31e6.webp?v=1764967903","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-odyssey-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}