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The Odyssey / Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Description: x, 541 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780670821624
  • 0670821624
  • 9780140268867
  • 0140268863
Uniform titles:
  • Odyssey. English (Fagles)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Odyssey.DDC classification:
  • 883/.01 20
LOC classification:
  • PA4025.A5 F34 1996
Contents:
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
Summary: A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War
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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

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