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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Homer
Creators: Bernard Knox, Robert Fagles
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 8837
Media: Paperback
Pages: 560
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0143039954
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780143039952
ASIN: 0143039954
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
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Product Description
Robert Fagles s stunning modern-verse translation available at last in our black-spine classics line
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 original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer s students.
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 A classic November 7, 2008
pizza99
A very long book, but quite interesting and will keep you wanting to pick it up again. The English translation is well done and provides a strong basis for many lessons that hold true today. This tale holds such a strong fix in our popular culture that this reading is highly recommended for all high school students.
 Great story, horrible translation October 9, 2008
Professor Chaffee
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a scholar of Homeric Greek I would avoid this translation at all costs. It may be very well written as far as narrative ease is concerned, but it absolutely doesn't follow the original text in either wording or meaning.
 Stick with Rieu's original... June 29, 2008
Ryan Kouroukis (Toronto, Ontario Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
(I'm not sure why amazon has over half of these reviews for Fagels's translation on Rieu's page? I noticed this happening quite a bit on amazon, but anyway...)
I have spent quite a bit of time comparing versions of "The Odyssey", and out of all of them I settled on Rieu's pioneering translation.
It was originally published in 1946 as Penguin's very first book!
He would recite "The Odyssey" from the original Greek to his wife and children during the second world war in London while bombs dropped around them. It was Rieu's wish to start a publishing company that dealt with reviving the classics for common man. Penguin Classics is now the most widely loved, read and utilized editions on the market! What a vision he had!
This edition of The Odyssey was revised by his son in 1991 and reprinted with a better print and layout in 2002. It still carries a type of "joie de vivre" all throughout, a wonderful raciness, and a strength of believablity.
...as good as the revised one is, I actually prefer Rieu's original more because of the humble human language he uses...which has mostly been taken away.
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Emily J. Taylor (Utah)
The reason some stories remain classics is simply because they deserve it. This ancient story is as exciting, sexy, and romantic as they possible come and that is simply how it should be. Post-Iliad comes the perilous journey back to Greece, a journey that lasts twenty years through every horrible (and yet totally cool thing) that could ever happen. It's passionate, fun, and exciting and I guess that is why they make us read all of it in high school. Well, yay!
Older and Wiser May 17, 2008
Victorine Donaldson (upper darby)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
While the story is fictional and full of all the joys and horrors of life, I am, at my later years finding that this text, the bible, and roman mythology have so much in common as to stimulate our minds, conceptions, and views without reducing our individual religious beliefs. The tales compliment and in some small way confirm each of mankinds dealing with the unknown at that period of history. To have the background of reading the Bible, Homer, Romans, Voltaire, etc. is to truly come to grips with an individual religion and God, versus, a rote learned Higher Power.
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