Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line
A Penguin Classic
The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.
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Según la tradición, el poeta griego Homero (ss. IX-VIII a. de C., aproximadamente) fue el autor de la Ilíada y de la Odisea, por lo que es considerado uno de los escritores más influyentes de todos los tiempos. Algunos críticos modernos, sin embargo, mantienen que Homero no fue el auténtico creador de estas obras, sino que se limitó a compilar y unificar una gran cantidad de relatos orales que él mismo recitaba. Sea como fuere, ambos poemas se convirtieron en la base de la educación y cultura griega en la época clásica, así como de la literatura occidental moderna.