The Odyssey - Paperback
by Homer
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Availability:In StockContributor:Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:11/1/2006Pages:560
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143039952ISBN-10:143039954UPC:9780143039952Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, EpicSize:7.76 x 5.12 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SC9P66S2K4
The Odyssey
Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation--available at last in our black-spine classics line Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan A Penguin Classic The 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...
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143039952ISBN-10:143039954UPC:9780143039952Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, EpicSize:7.76 x 5.12 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SC9P66S2K4
Homer 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 Iliad and the Odyssey - are...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)
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