Best Translation Of Homer's Odyssey - April 2024

The Odyssey

• ASIN: 0140268863
• ASIN: 0140268863
• ISBN: 9780140268867
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Odyssey

A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." ―Madeline Miller, author of CirceComposed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393356256
• ASIN: 0393356256
• ISBN: 0393356256
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)

From Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator whose Iliad was named one of The New Yorker’s Favorite Books of 2011, comes a vivid new translation of the Odyssey, complete with textual notes and an illuminating introductory essay.The hardcover publication of the Odyssey received glowing reviews: The New York Times praised “Mitchell’s fresh, elegant diction and the care he lavishes on meter, [which] brought me closer to the transfigurative experience Keats describes on reading Chapman’s Homer”; Booklist, in a starred review, said that “Mitchell retells the first, still greatest adve... [Read More]

• ASIN: 145167418X
• ASIN: 145167418X
• ISBN: 145167418X
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

The Odyssey of Homer - [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1996] FAGLES ROBERT

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• ASIN: B000PGMXSQ
• ASIN: B000PGMXSQ
• Manufacturer: Viking

The Iliad / The Odyssey

Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0147712556
• ASIN: 0147712556
• ISBN: 0147712556
• Brand: Penguin
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Odyssey (Everyman's Library)[Fitzgerald Translation]- By Homer/Robert Fitzgerald

Introduction by Seamus Heaney; Translation by Robert Fitzgerald

• ASIN: B003SGFQMU
• ASIN: B003SGFQMU
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

The Iliad

The great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, and featured in the Netflix series The OAA Penguin Classic   Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of c... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140275363
• ASIN: 0140275363
• ISBN: 9780140275360
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Odyssey

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the narrative energy and a whirlwind pace. The lines, rhythmic and clipped, have the tautness and force of Odysseus' bow." —Chris Hedges, The New York Times Book Review

• ASIN: 0872204847
• ASIN: 0872204847
• ISBN: 9780872204843
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid box set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles’s award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literatureONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles’s interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon. The Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid are collected here for the first time in a specially designed gift box. Each volume contains a superb introduction by renowned classicist Bernard Knox. about The Odyssey

• ASIN: 0147505607
• ASIN: 0147505607
• ISBN: 0147505607
• Brand: Virgil/ Homer/ Fagles, Robert (TRN)
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Odyssey

In paperback! With bold imagery and an ear tuned to the music of Homer’s epic poem, Gareth Hinds reinterprets the ancient classic as it’s never been told before."Gareth Hinds brings The Odyssey to life in a masterful blend of art and storytelling. Vivid and exciting, this graphic novel is a worthy new interpretation of Homer’s epic."—Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians seriesFresh from his triumphs in the Trojan War, Odysseus, King of Ithaca, wants nothing more than to return home to his family. Instead, he offends the sea god, Poseidon, who dooms him to years ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0763642681
• ASIN: 0763642681
• ISBN: 0763642681
• Brand: Candlewick Press MA
• Manufacturer: Candlewick

The Odyssey translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Jackie Schuman.

Translated by Robert Fitzgerald, this is the most acclaimed translation of THE ODYSSEY of our time

• ASIN: B000OFXOG8
• ASIN: B000OFXOG8
• Manufacturer: Vintage Classics

The Iliad of Homer

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard M... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0226470490
• ASIN: 0226470490
• ISBN: 0226470490
• Brand: University of Chicago Press
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

The Essential Odyssey (Hackett Classics)

This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Sheila Murnaghan's Introduction, a shortened version of her essay for the unabridged edition, is ideal for readers new to this remarkable tale of the homecoming of Odysseus.

• ASIN: 0872208990
• ASIN: 0872208990
• ISBN: 0872208990
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander

With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the abiding, blighting facts of war.Soldier and civilian, victor and v... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062046284
• ASIN: 0062046284
• ISBN: 0062046284
• Manufacturer: Ecco

The Essential Homer (Hackett Classics)

Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

• ASIN: 0872205401
• ASIN: 0872205401
• ISBN: 0872205401
• Brand: Hackett Pub Co Inc
• Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

The Odyssey : The Fitzgerald Translation

Presents the classic poem concerning the wanderings of the hero Odysseus and his miraculous return to Ithaca and a faithful

• UPC: 465310
• Rating: 4.205

The Passion Translation New Testament (2nd Edition) Purple : With Psalms, Proverbs and Song of Songs

Encounter the Heart of God The Passion Translation(R) is a new, heart-level Bible translation that expresses God's fiery heart of love, merging the emotion and life-changing truth of God's Word. God longs to have his

• UPC: 456099539
• Rating: 5.0

The Odyssey : (the Stephen Mitchell Translation)

9781451674187

• UPC: 38184647
• Rating: 4.205

The Passion Translation New Testament (2nd Edition) Ivory : With Psalms, Proverbs and Song of Songs

9781424556861

• UPC: 952995461

The Odyssey (The Samuel Butler Prose Translation) - eBook

"The Odyssey" is a classical epic poem about the events following the fall of Troy and the end of the Trojan War which is generally thought to have been written at the end of the

• UPC: 375914305
• Rating: 4.205

The Odyssey : A New Verse Translation

A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he encounters many monsters and other obstacles on his journey home from the Trojan

• UPC: 53329067
• Rating: 4.205

The Passion Translation New Testament (2nd Edition) Floral : With Psalms, Proverbs and Song of Songs

Encounter the Heart of God The Passion Translation(R) is a new, heart-level Bible translation that expresses God's fiery heart of love, merging the emotion and life-changing truth of God's Word. God longs to have his

• UPC: 946615155
• Rating: 5.0

The Nag Hammadi Scriptures : The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume

This up-to-date, one-volume, English-language edition of the sacred Gnostic manuscripts features introductory essays, notes, tables, and more to help the reader understand the context and contemporary significance of these texts that have shed new light

• UPC: 9603042
• Rating: 4.0

The Odyssey : Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Barry B. Powell

The Odyssey...

• UPC: 38657437
• Rating: 4.205

The Passion Translation New Testament Blue : With Psalms, Proverbs and Song of Songs

Encounter the Heart of God The Passion Translation(R) is a new, heart-level Bible translation that expresses God's fiery heart of love, merging the emotion and life-changing truth of God's Word. The goal of this translation

• UPC: 342854061
• Rating: 5.0