The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid Box Set - by Homer & Virgil (Mixed Media Product)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature</b> <p/>ONE 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 <i>The Iliad, The Odyssey</i>, and <i>The Aeneid</i> are collected here for the first time in a specially designed gift box. Each volume contains a superb introduction by renowned classicist Bernard Knox. <p/><p><br> about <b>The Odyssey</b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>" Robert Fagles is the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English."<BR> -Garry Wills, "The New Yorker"<BR><BR> " Mr. Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time and yet timeless." <BR>-Richard Jenkyns, "The New York Times Book Review"<BR><BR> " Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgil's drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of "The Aeneid"."<BR> -J. M. Coetzee<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Homer </b>was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the<i> Iliad</i>, the story of the siege of Troy, and the <i>Odyssey</i>, the tale of Ulysses's wanderings.
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