Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation

and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts

and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible

poem in a stunning modern-verse translation. "Sing to me of the man,

Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once

he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." So begins Robert

Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in the New York Times Book Review hails as "a distinguished achievement."
If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey

is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through

life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his

encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage

home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story

and an individual test of moral endurance. 
In the myths and

legends  retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of

Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey

to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.

Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb introduction and textual

commentary provide insightful background information for the general

reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles's

translation. This is an Odyssey

to delight both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a

new generation of Homer's students. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.

more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of

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