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The Odyssey Homer

The Odyssey By Homer

The Odyssey by Homer


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The Odyssey Summary

The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer

The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green's version, with its lyrical mastery and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to enjoy Homer's epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition.

The Odyssey Reviews

Comparisons to [Emily] Wilson's recent translation are inevitable. . . . Both Wilson and Green capture the spirit of the Odyssey, but word-for-word, Green also captures a feel for the Homeric language, an experience closer to the original. * Library Journal *
Green's intelligent translation is . . . a superb choice. * The Weekly Standard *
Green brings to the poem the rhetorical directness and historical expertise which worked so well in his translation of The Iliad. Speeches in his version are vigorous and direct. * London Review of Books *
The kind of absorption offered by Green's translation seems particularly relevant to the reading of a poem from an alien culture and period. It contributes to the opening of the imagination that is surely one of the main pleasures of reading such a work. . . . I recommend this translation not only for its weighty introduction and notes but above all for the sensitivity of its expression. * Manchester Review *

About Homer

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. One of the most prolific scholars of the ancient world, he is the author of both historical studies and translations of poetry, including The Poems of Catullus, Apollonios's The Argonautika, and Homer's The Iliad, all by UC Press.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction

THE ODYSSEY

Synopsis
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index

Additional information

GOR011422710
9780520303362
0520303369
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of California Press
20190423
536
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