The Odyssey / Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. [print]
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publication details: New York : Viking, (c)1996.Description: x, 541 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780140268867
- 9780143039952
- 9780670821624
- Odyssey. English (Fagles)
- PA4025.B582.O397 1996
- PA4025
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) | G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION | PA4025.H664.O397 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31923001734173 |
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.
COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
There are no comments on this title.