The Odyssey /
Homer,
The Odyssey / [print] Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. - New York : Viking, (c)1996. - x, 541 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names -- Maps: Homeric geography : Mainland Greece ; Homeric geography : the Peloponnese ; Homeric geography : the Aegean and Asia Minor -- Inset: Troy and vicinity -- Homer: Odyssey. Athena inspires the prince -- Telemachus sets sail -- King Nestor remembers -- The king and queen of Sparta -- Odysseus--Nymph and shipwreck -- The princess and the stranger -- Phaeacia's halls and gardens -- A day for songs and contests -- In the one-eyed giant's cave -- The bewitching queen of Aeaea -- The kingdom of the dead -- The cattle of the sun -- Ithaca at last -- The loyal swineherd -- The prince sets sail for home -- Father and son -- Stranger at the gates -- The beggar-king of Ithaca -- Penelope and her guest -- Portents gather -- Odysseus strings his bow -- Slaughter in the hall -- The great rooted bed -- Peace -- Notes: Translator's postscript ; Genealogies ; Textual variants fromt he Oxford classical text ; Notes on the translation -- Pronouncing glossary.
A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
9780140268867 9780143039952 9780670821624
96017280
GB9814690 bnb
011346543 Uk
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) --Poetry.
Epic poetry, Greek--Translations into English.
Epic poetry.
PA4025.B582.O397 1996 PA4025
The Odyssey / [print] Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. - New York : Viking, (c)1996. - x, 541 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names -- Maps: Homeric geography : Mainland Greece ; Homeric geography : the Peloponnese ; Homeric geography : the Aegean and Asia Minor -- Inset: Troy and vicinity -- Homer: Odyssey. Athena inspires the prince -- Telemachus sets sail -- King Nestor remembers -- The king and queen of Sparta -- Odysseus--Nymph and shipwreck -- The princess and the stranger -- Phaeacia's halls and gardens -- A day for songs and contests -- In the one-eyed giant's cave -- The bewitching queen of Aeaea -- The kingdom of the dead -- The cattle of the sun -- Ithaca at last -- The loyal swineherd -- The prince sets sail for home -- Father and son -- Stranger at the gates -- The beggar-king of Ithaca -- Penelope and her guest -- Portents gather -- Odysseus strings his bow -- Slaughter in the hall -- The great rooted bed -- Peace -- Notes: Translator's postscript ; Genealogies ; Textual variants fromt he Oxford classical text ; Notes on the translation -- Pronouncing glossary.
A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
9780140268867 9780143039952 9780670821624
96017280
GB9814690 bnb
011346543 Uk
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) --Poetry.
Epic poetry, Greek--Translations into English.
Epic poetry.
PA4025.B582.O397 1996 PA4025