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Homer,

The Odyssey / Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox - x, 541 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Introduction: The spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names -- Maps: Homeric geography : Mainland Greece ; Homeric geography : the Peloponnese ; Homeric geography : the Aegean and Asia Minor -- Inset: Troy and vicinity -- Homer: Odyssey. Athena inspires the prince -- Telemachus sets sail -- King Nestor remembers -- The king and queen of Sparta -- Odysseus--Nymph and shipwreck -- The princess and the stranger -- Phaeacia's halls and gardens -- A day for songs and contests -- In the one-eyed giant's cave -- The bewitching queen of Aeaea -- The kingdom of the dead -- The cattle of the sun -- Ithaca at last -- The loyal swineherd -- The prince sets sail for home -- Father and son -- Stranger at the gates -- The beggar-king of Ithaca -- Penelope and her guest -- Portents gather -- Odysseus strings his bow -- Slaughter in the hall -- The great rooted bed -- Peace -- Notes: Translator's postscript ; Genealogies ; Textual variants from the Oxford classical text ; Notes on the translation -- Pronouncing glossary

A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War

ISBN: 9780670821624 0670821624 9780140268867 0140268863

LCCN: 96017280

Nat. Bib. No.: GB9814690 bnb GB97W9400 bnb

Subjects--Personal Names:
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) --Poetry

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Epic poetry, Greek--Translations into English
Mythology, Greek

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Poetry
Epic poetry.
Epic poetry.
Poetry.

LC Class. No.: PA4025.A5 / F34 1996

Dewey Class. No.: 883/.01