The Odyssey - A Translation Comparison

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  • The Iliad of Homer

    • ASIN: 0226470490
    • ISBN: 0226470490
    • Brand: University of Chicago Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

    "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twe... [Read More]

  • The Odyssey of Homer

    • ASIN: 006124418X
    • ISBN: 006124418X
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    Homer’s great epic The Odyssey—one of Western literature’s most enduring and important works—translated by Richmond LattimoreA classic for the ages, The Odyssey recounts Odysseus’ journey home after the Trojan War—and the obstacles he faces along the way to reclaim his throne, kingdom, and family in Ithaca. During his absence, his stead... [Read More]

  • Odyssey

    • ASIN: 0872204847
    • ISBN: 9780872204843
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

    Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the narrative energy and a whirlwind pace. The lines, rhythmic and clipped, have the tautness and force of O... [Read More]

  • The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander

    • ASIN: 0062046284
    • ISBN: 0062046284
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. F... [Read More]

  • The Iliad

    • ASIN: 0140275363
    • ISBN: 9780140275360
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    The great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, and featured in the Netflix series The OAA Penguin Classic   Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruct... [Read More]

  • Chapman's Homer: The Iliad and The Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

    • ASIN: 1840221178
    • ISBN: 9781840221176
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions Ltd

    Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questions about mortality and identity that Homer's heroes ask, the bonds of love, respect and fellowsh... [Read More]

  • The Essential Iliad

    • ASIN: 0872205428
    • ISBN: 0872205428
    • Brand: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co.
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

    While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature.

  • The Odyssey

    • ASIN: 0393356256
    • ISBN: 0393356256
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." ―Madeline Miller, author of CirceComposed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about v... [Read More]

  • The Iliad / The Odyssey

    • ASIN: 0147712556
    • ISBN: 0147712556
    • Brand: Penguin
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evoc... [Read More]

  • The Odyssey of Homer (P.S.) [Paperback] Richmond Lattimore (Author)

    • ASIN: B0052XTP9W

  • The Essential Homer (Hackett Classics)

    • ASIN: 0872205401
    • ISBN: 0872205401
    • Brand: Hackett Pub Co Inc
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

    Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

  • The Odyssey: Revised Prose Translation (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140445560
    • ISBN: 0140445560
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    The ten year's adventures of Ulysses during his return journey from Troy.

  • The Odyssey translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Jackie Schuman.

    • ASIN: B000OFXOG8
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Classics

    Translated by Robert Fitzgerald, this is the most acclaimed translation of THE ODYSSEY of our time

  • Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid box set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    • ASIN: 0147505607
    • ISBN: 0147505607
    • Brand: Virgil/ Homer/ Fagles, Robert (TRN)
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles’s award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literatureONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles’s interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon. The Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and T... [Read More]

  • The Odyssey (Everyman's Library)[Fitzgerald Translation]- By Homer/Robert Fitzgerald

    • ASIN: B003SGFQMU
    • Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

    Introduction by Seamus Heaney; Translation by Robert Fitzgerald

  • ODYSSEY OF HOMER : RICHMOND LATTIMORE TRANSLATION

    • ASIN: B00A2KBZSO
    • ISBN: 006124418X
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    used but good condition

  • The Odyssey: A New Verse Translation

    • ASIN: 0393007448
    • ISBN: 0393007448
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he encounters many monsters and other obstacles on his journey home from the Trojan War."It is always a real pleasure to read a translation which adheres to one basic, important principle, to reflect faithfully what the poet says. Professor Cook's translation does jus... [Read More]

  • A Guide to The Iliad: Based on the translation by Robert Fitzgerald

    • ASIN: 0385145195
    • ISBN: 0385145195
    • Manufacturer: Anchor Books

    Used book. Good condition

  • The Odyssey (Signet Classics)

    • ASIN: 0451527364
    • ISBN: 9780451527363
    • Manufacturer: Signet Classics

    A new edition of the classic translation of the ancient Greek epic chronicles the perilous tenyear journey of Odysseus from the battlefields of Troy to his home in Ithaca. Reprint.

  • Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of Homer (Loeb Classical Library No. 496)

    • ASIN: 0674996062
    • ISBN: 0674996062
    • Manufacturer: Harvard University Press

    Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess--as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title "Hymns of Homer." This new Loeb Classical Library volume contains, in addition to the Hymns, fragments of five comic poems that were con... [Read More]

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