The Odyssey

Homer (author), translated by Robert Fagles

When Robert Fagles’ translation of The Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece. Now one of the great translators of our time presents us with The Odyssey, Homer’s best-loved poem, recounting Odysseus’ wanderings after the Trojan War.

With wit and wile, the 'man of twists and turns' meets the challenges of gods and monsters, only to return after twenty years to a home besieged by his wife’s suitors. In the myths and legends retold in this immortal poem, Fagles has captured the energy of Homer’s original in a bold, contemporary idiom.

Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. Both works attributed to Homer – The Iliad and The Odyssey – are over ten thousand lines long in the original.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 31 Oct. 2006
Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Print length ‏ : ‎ 541 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780143039952
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 374 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.71 x 13 x 2.49 cm