The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)Series:Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1997-11-01Pages:560
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140268867ISBN-10:140268863UPC:9780140268867Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, EpicSize:8.40 x 5.70 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC9Q2DK8XD
The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic 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 modern-verse translation. "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the...
Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140268867ISBN-10:140268863UPC:9780140268867Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, EpicSize:8.40 x 5.70 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC9Q2DK8XD
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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