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The Odyssey / Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publication details: New York : Viking, [(c)1996.Description: x, 541 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0140268863
  • 0143039954
  • 0670821624
  • 9780140268867
  • 9780143039952
  • 9780670821624
Uniform titles:
  • Odyssey. English (Fagles)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PA4025.H664.O397 1996
  • PA4025.A5.K74.O397 1996
Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Summary: A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
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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.

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