The Odyssey
Homer, Translated by Robert Fagles, Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox
Language: English
Published by Viking Press / Penguin Group (USA), New York, London, Victoria, Auckland, 1996
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META-CLASSIC, INDISENSABLE: AS-NEW: A SUPERB First Edition hardcover (orig. 1996) w/ printed full no. line on the title page showing First Printing, AS-NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners w/ no price shown, AS-NEW unblemished raw-silk-finish white-linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & w/ twin dolphins stamped white-on white on lower corner of the front panel & titles handsomely stamped in copper-gold on spine, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ EXCELLENT smooth-cut top & bottom (w/ top edge stained rose-orange) & cut-page style "deckle" side-edging, AS-NEW uncreased binding w/ tight signatures & black cloth bands at spine-caps & silver silk page-marker ribbon, SPLENDID brown-on-tan frieze-bordered end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed w/ exceptional clarity & elegance on EXCELLENT unblemished acid-free archival paper w/ line-numbering at intervals of 10 in the right margins of the texts, an extended & extremely valuable 62 pp. introduction, an extended note on the spelling & pronunciation of Homeric names, & w/ maps illustrative of Homeric geography showing (1) Mainland Greece, (2) the Peloponnese & (3) the Aegean & Asia Minor w/ an inset of Troy & its Vicinity * NOTES: translator's postscript (489), genealogies (497), textual variations from the Oxford Classical Text (501), notes on the translation (503), suggestions for further reading (507) & pronouncing glossary (521) * 6.50" x 9.40", 1.02 kg, x+541 (551) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: If the Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of Everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit & wiliness for survival in his encounters w/ divine & natural forces is at once the human story & an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths & legends that are magnificently retold here, Fagles has captured the energy & poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom & given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor & to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb introduction & textual commentary provide new insights & background information for the general reader & scholar, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist & the public at large, & to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. HIGHEST PRAISE: "Fagles' 'Odyssey' is a splendid companion piece to his memorable English version of the 'Iliad'. He has managed to create a poetic style that combines the pungency of modern colloquial English w/ a timeless dignity. The sensory values of Odysseus' archaic world, the snap of sails, the scud of sea-foam & the gleam of burnished bronze come wonderfully alive in this supple, rhythmic English" - Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley * ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: ROBERT FAGLES, the winner of the PEN-Ralph Mannheim Medal for Translation & an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, is Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University & received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Yale University. BERNARD KNOX is Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee of $14.00 w/ shipping to all international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL at our posted rates. …
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- Title
- The Odyssey
- Author
- Homer, Translated by Robert Fagles, Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox
- Publisher
- Viking Press / Penguin Group (USA), New York, London, Victoria, Auckland
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670821624
- ISBN 13
- 9780670821624
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 1.02 kilograms
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About the Author
Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives.
He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer ? the Iliad and the Odyssey ? are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.
In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller’s tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope.
We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact ?Homer’ may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps ?the hostage’ or ?the blind one’. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years’ time.
Robert Fagles (1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus’s Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer’s Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer’s Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid.Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles’ Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).
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