The Odyssey of Homer
A New Verse Translation
$29.41
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2003
Summary
A stunning verse translation of Homer’s epic tale about one man’s decade-long struggle to return home after years on the battlefields of Troy, from National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum
“Muse, tell me of the man of many wiles, the man who wandered many paths of exile after he sacked Troy’s sacred citadel.”
So begins one of the greatest adventures of world literature. Homer’s epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus’ decade-long journey home from the Trojan W…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553213997 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0553213997 |
| Author: | Homer, Allen Mandelbaum |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2003 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 104mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Bantam Classics |
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“A splendid achievement outstripping all
“A splendid achievement outstripping all competitors.”—Anthony A. Long, author of Hellenistic Philosophy
“With real poetic power … his book is one no lover of living poetry should miss.”—The New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Homer
Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.
Allen Mandelbaum was born in 1926 and died in 2011. His translations of Homer, Dante, Virgil, Quasimodo, and Ungaretti were all published to great acclaim. His rendering of The Aeneid won the National Book Award. He was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.
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