The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

Author(s): Homer Homer

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Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing & terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches & treacherous seas that confront him? What new tests await him if he ever reaches his home shore?

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The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones

Homer is a much-debated figure traditionally considered to have composed the two great oral poems The Odyssey and The Iliad in eighth or seventh-century-BC Greece. Robert Fitzgerald was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus at Harvard University.He was a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.He published four volumes of his own verse during his lifetime.His translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad, and of Virgil's Aeniad, won him many honours and are universally acknowledged to be among the finest of their kind this century. He died in 1985.

General Fields

  • : 9780099511687
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • : 0.343
  • : September 2007
  • : January 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : FC
  • : 480
  • : 883.01
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Homer Homer