Homer's Odyssey
an illustrated retelling
$39.00
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
27 April 2026
Summary
Homer’s Odyssey is one of the world’s oldest and most famous works of literature. It has enthralled readers for almost three thousand years with its tales of gods and monsters, warriors and kings, but also of family, faith, and the universal longing for home. This stunning new edition of Homer’s epic features a brand new retelling by celebrated classicist Barry Powell, who has studied, written about, and lectured on Homer for over three decades. Barry’s retelling is accompanied by sixty newly…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781917226394 |
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| ISBN-10: | 191722639X |
| Author: | Joanna Lisoweic, Barry B. Powell |
| Publisher: | UniPress Books |
| Imprint: | UniPress Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 27 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 180mm |
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About The Author
Joanna Lisoweic
Barry B. Powell is the Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for thirty-four years. He has translated the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid for Oxford University Press. He has published a translation of the poems of Hesiod. He has contributed to classical journals. He has also written short fiction (The House of Odysseus and Other Short Fictions), novels (Ramses in Nighttown, A Land of Slaves, The Berkeley Plan, Return to California), poetry (Rooms Containing Falcons), and a screenplay (Helen of Troy).
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