{"product_id":"the-odyssey","title":"The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, Polyphemus the Cyclops; he visits the underworld; he faces the terrible monsters Scylla and Charybdis; he extricates himself from the charms of Circe and Calypso. After these and numerous other legendary encounters he finally reaches home, where, disguised as a beggar, he begins to plan revenge on the suitors who have for years been besieging Penelope and feasting on his own meat and wine with insolent impunity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eThe Odyssey \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Spelling and Pronunciation of Homeris Names\u003cbr\u003eMaps: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1. Homeric Geography: Mainland Greece\u003cbr\u003e2. Homeric Geography: The Peloponnese\u003cbr\u003e3. Homeric Geography: The Aegean and Asia Minor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHomer: The Odyssey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook 1: Athena Inspires the Prince\u003cbr\u003eBook 2: Telemachus Sets Sail\u003cbr\u003eBook 3: King Nestor Remembers\u003cbr\u003eBook 4: The King and Queen of Sparta\u003cbr\u003eBook 5: Odysseus-Nymph and Shipwreck\u003cbr\u003eBook 6: The Princess and the Stranger\u003cbr\u003eBook 7: Phaeacia's Halls and Gardens\u003cbr\u003eBook 8: A Day for Songs and Contests\u003cbr\u003eBook 9: In the One-Eyed Giant's Cave\u003cbr\u003eBook 10: The Bewitched Queen of Aeaea\u003cbr\u003eBook 11: The Kingdom of the Dead\u003cbr\u003eBook 12: The Cattle of the Sun\u003cbr\u003eBook 13: Ithaca at Last\u003cbr\u003eBook 14: The Loyal Swineherd\u003cbr\u003eBook 15: The Prince Sets Sail for Home\u003cbr\u003eBook 16: Father and Son\u003cbr\u003eBook 17: Stranger at the Gates\u003cbr\u003eBook 18: The Beggar-King of Ithaca\u003cbr\u003eBook 19: Penelope and her Guest\u003cbr\u003eBook 20: Portents Gather\u003cbr\u003eBook 21: Odysseus Stings his Bow\u003cbr\u003eBook 22: Slaughter in the Hall\u003cbr\u003eBook 23: The Great Rooted Bed\u003cbr\u003eBook 24: Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Postscript\u003cbr\u003eGenealogies\u003cbr\u003eTextual Variants from the Oxford Classical Text\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Translation\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003ePronouncing Glossary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Robert Fagles Translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wonderfully readable... Just the right blend of roughness and sophistication.\"--Ted Hughes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Robert Fagles is the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English.\"--Garry Wills, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mr. Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time and yet timeless.\"--Richard Jenkyns, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHomer\u003c\/b\u003e was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn The Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Fagles\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN\/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThree Theban Plays\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Aeschylus's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOresteia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and Virgil's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard Knox\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEssays Ancient and Modern\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(awarded the 1989 PEN\/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46333887054010,"sku":"9780140268867","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_dd13c784-9535-4cdf-9280-313202f507f8.jpg?v=1786642780","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/the-odyssey","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}