The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer
|
Book Summary Author: Homer Editor: Bernard Knox Introduction: Bernard Knox Translator: Robert Fagles Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Format: Box set Published: 1999-11-01 ISBN: 0147712556 Number of pages: 1 Publisher: Penguin Classics |
| New | New Usually ships in 1-2 business days | $19.99 | ||
| Used | Used Usually ships in 1-2 business days | $15.00 | ||
| Collectible | Collectible Usually ships in 1-2 business days | $777.77 |
Your purchase is protected by the A-to-z Safe Buying Guarantee. Amazon.com automatically transfers your payment to the merchant so you'll never need to pay a merchant directly. Amazon.com A-to-z Safe Buying Guarantee covers both the delivery of your item and its condition upon receipt.
Book Reviews of the The Iliad / The Odyssey
Customer Review: Dramatic and readable
Summary: 4 Stars
Robert Fagles has done an excellent job at giving life to this ancient 'song', an epic of war. If you read this translation aloud (which you should certainly do!!), you will see how he has tried to give it the feel of an oral tradition, as if a bard were truly singing it. If you want to read this for the excitement of it, and really get a feel for the life behind it, read this translation. There are some boring parts, but that's just how the Iliad is, and it has nothing to do with Fagles's translation.However, if you are in a reading group of some sort where you all have different translations, you will quickly realize upon comparison that Fagles's translation, especially compared to the Lattimore, leaves something to be desired in terms of its literal-ness (is that a word?). For studying the particulars, I would suggest the Lattimore translation instead, which makes more of an effort to be true to the original Greek, and is still interesting, but less readable and intense than the Fagles translation.