LoginThe Odyssey
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"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 Times Review of Books hails as "a distinguished achievement."
If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, 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
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Manufacturer: Penguin
Release date: 3 October 1982
ISBN-10 : B004MKNUH4 | ISBN-13: 9780140440010
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Release date: 3 October 1982
ISBN-10 : B004MKNUH4 | ISBN-13: 9780140440010
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