The Odyssey

• Author : Homer
• Publisher : Collector's Library
• Release : 01 March 2011

The Odyssey, translated by T. E. Lawrence, an epic 12,000-line poem composed over 2,700 years ago, is the first adventure story in Western literature. It describes the ten-year wanderings of Odysseus in his quest to return home after the Trojan War. Hounded by the sea-god Poseidon and championed by the goddess Athene, he encounters giants, sorceresses, and sea monsters before finally reaching his beloved Ithaca. There he must endure the taunts of the Suitors to his queen, Penelope, who have taken

• Author : Homer
• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• Release : 04 February 1991

Odysseus, the most heroic of the ancient Greek warriors, journeys home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

• Author : Richmond Lattimore
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 17 March 2009

Homer’s great epic The Odyssey—one of Western literature’s most enduring and important works—translated by Richmond Lattimore A 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 steadfast and clever wife, Penelope, and now teenaged son, Telemachus, have lived under the constant threat of ruthless suitors, all desperate to court Penelope

• Author : Homer
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1871

The English version of "The Odyssey" is Alexander Pope's 1725 translation. As Dr. Johnson said, it is "certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen." This is that text as cast into Engish by Alexander Pope, one of the giants of English poetry. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

• Author : HOMER
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 2023

• Author : Homer
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1962

• Author : Homerus
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 2023

• Author : Homer
• Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
• Release : 04 February 2023

Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.

• Author : Jasper Griffin
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 04 February 2023

This handy guide to The Odyssey will introduce students to a text, which has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years. Readers will be introduced to the world in that the Odyssey was produced, to the text itself and to its origins in oral poetry. This volume gives a summary of the poem and examines its structure. The unity, values and techniques of the poem are clearly outlined, as are the reasons for its longstanding appeal. This guide delves into

• Author : Homer,George Chapman
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 17 December 2000

George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman

• Author : Homer
• Publisher : Bantam Classics
• Release : 04 February 1991

A highly regarded translator of Virgil and Dante bends his efforts to Homer's masterful work, offering a new verse translation of the epic tale of one man's dangerous ten-year struggle to return home to his loyal wife, Penelope, after years on the battlefields of Troy. Reissue.

• Author : 'Omēros,Homer
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 08 December 1994

This edition of the "Odyssey", books VI-VIII forms an introduction to Homer for students of Greek. The commentary aims especially to provide guidance on questions of literary and narrative technique and poetic artistry

• Author : Homer
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 07 October 2014

A new translation of Homer's epic adventure endeavors to instill the poetic nature of its original language while retaining accuracy, readability, and character vibrancy, creating the most captivating rendition of one of the defining masterpieces of Western literature.

• Author : Homer
• Publisher : National Geographic Books
• Release : 01 November 1997

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic 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

• Author : Homer
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 04 February 2023

HOMER, The works assigned to Homer include the earliest and greatest European epic poems, but nothing is known of their Greek author (if not authors) unless it is that his country was Ionia in Asia Minor. To the ancients Homeric poetry at first was all the old epics, especially about Thebes and Troy; then 'Homer' was credited only with the Iliad and the Odyssey which we still have, and some minor poems of which we include Homeric Hymns in the