TY  - BOOK
AU  - Homer
AU  - Fagles,Robert
AU  - Knox,Bernard
TI  - The Odyssey
SN  - 9780140268867 (pbk)
AV  - PA4025.A5 F34 1996
U1  - 883.01 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Epic poetry, Greek
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Odysseus (Greek Mythology)
KW  - Poetry
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction; The Spelling and Pronunciation of Homeric Names; MAPS; 1. Homeric Geography: Mainland Greece
; 2. Homeric Geography: The Peloponnese
; 3. Homeric Geography: The Aegean and Asia Minor 
Inset: Troy and Vicinity
; HOMER: The Odyssey
; Book 1: Athena Inspires the Prince
; Book 2: Telemachus Sets Sail
; Book 3: King Nestor Remembers
; Book 4: The King and Queen of Sparta
; Book 5: Odysseus-Nymph and Shipwreck
; Book 6: The Princess and the Stranger
; Book 7: Phaecia's Halls and Gardens
; Book 8: A Day for Songs and Contests
; Book 9: In the One-Eyed Giant's Cave
; Book 10: The Bewitching Queen of Aeaea
; Book 11: The Kingdom of the Dead
; Book 12: The Castle of the Sun
; Book 13: Ithaca at Last
; Book 14: The Loyal Swineherd
; Book 15: The Prince Sets Sail for Home
; Book 16: Father and Son
; Book 17: Stranger at the Gates
; Book 18: The Beggar-King of Ithaca
; Book 19: Penelope and Her Guest
; Book 20: Portents Gather
; Book 21: Odysseus Strings His Bow
; Book 22: Slaughter in the Hall
; Book 23: The Great Rooted Bed
; Book 24: Peace; NOTES; Translator's Postscript; Genealogies; Textual Variants from the Oxford Classical Text; Notes on the Translation; Suggestions for Further Reading; Pronouncing Glossary
N2  - ''Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns -- driven time and again off course, once he had plundered -- the hallowed heights of Troy" So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Review of Books hails as ''a distinguished achievement.'' If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once the timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, 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.
Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Hormer's students.'' (Book Jacket)
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