The Odyssey. Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Barry B. Powell.

Powell, Barry B.

ISBN 10: 0199925887 / ISBN 13: 9780199925889

Published by Oxford University Press Inc, 2014

About this Item

The Odyssey is one of the world's greatest and best loved poems. It has inspired painters, poets, sculptors, and screenwriters; and now Barry Powell, one of the twenty-first century's leading Homeric scholars, has given us a powerful new translation. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 237 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708. . 2014. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Odyssey. Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Barry B. Powell.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199925887
• ISBN 13: 9780199925889
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A major new translation of Homer's timeless epic

About the Author

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 is the author of the widely used textbook Classical Myth (8th edition, 2014). His A Short Introduction to Classical Myth (2001, translated into German) is a summary study of the topic. Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (1991) advances the thesis that a single man invented the Greek alphabet expressly in order to record the poems of Homer. Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature (2003) develops the consequence of this thesis.

Powell's critical study Homer (2nd edition, 2004, translated into Italian) is widely read as an introduction for philologists, historians, and students of literature. A New Companion to Homer (1997, with Ian Morris, translated into modern Greek) is a comprehensive review of modern scholarship on Homer. Powell's Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization (2009, translated into Arabic and modern Greek).