The Odyssey - by Homer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Since 1961, this "Odyssey" has sold more than two million copies and is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. 24 illustrations. Map. Glossary.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in paperback. </b> <p/><b> This edition also features a map, a Glossary of Names and Places, and Fitzgerald's Postscript. Line drawings precede each book of the poem. </b> <p/>Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's <i>Odyssey</i> is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this<i> Odyssey</i> has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language reader in all its glory. <p/>Of the many translations published since World War II, only Fitzgerald's has won admiration as a great poem in English. The noted classicist D. S. Carne-Ross explains the many aspects of its artistry in his Introduction, written especially for this new edition. <p/><b>Winner of the Bollingen Prize</b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A masterpiece . . . An <i>Odyssey</i> worthy of the original." --<i>William Arrowsmith, The Nation</i> <p/>"Here there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand." --<i>Seamus Heaney</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Robert Fitzgerald's</b> versions of the <i>Iliad, the Aeneid, </i> and the <i>Oedipus</i> cycle of Sophocles (with Dudley Fitts) are also classics. At his death, in 1988, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard. <p/> <b>Homer</b> is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the creator of the epic poems the <i>Iliad</i> and the <i>Odyssey</i>. Homer's works form the groundwork of the Western Canon and are universally praised for their genius. Their formative influence in shaping many key aspects of Greek culture was recognized by the Greeks themselves, who considered him as their instructor.</p>
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