{"product_id":"the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-penguin-classics-hardcover","title":"The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Hardcover)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Odyssey \n\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Spelling and Pronunciation of Homeris Names\u003cbr\u003eMaps: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1. Homeric Geography: Mainland Greece\u003cbr\u003e2. Homeric Geography: The Peloponnese\u003cbr\u003e3. Homeric Geography: The Aegean and Asia Minor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHomer: The Odyssey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook 1: Athena Inspires the Prince\u003cbr\u003eBook 2: Telemachus Sets Sail\u003cbr\u003eBook 3: King Nestor Remembers\u003cbr\u003eBook 4: The King and Queen of Sparta\u003cbr\u003eBook 5: Odysseus-Nymph and Shipwreck\u003cbr\u003eBook 6: The Princess and the Stranger\u003cbr\u003eBook 7: Phaeacia's Halls and Gardens\u003cbr\u003eBook 8: A Day for Songs and Contests\u003cbr\u003eBook 9: In the One-Eyed Giant's Cave\u003cbr\u003eBook 10: The Bewitched Queen of Aeaea\u003cbr\u003eBook 11: The Kingdom of the Dead\u003cbr\u003eBook 12: The Cattle of the Sun\u003cbr\u003eBook 13: Ithaca at Last\u003cbr\u003eBook 14: The Loyal Swineherd\u003cbr\u003eBook 15: The Prince Sets Sail for Home\u003cbr\u003eBook 16: Father and Son\u003cbr\u003eBook 17: Stranger at the Gates\u003cbr\u003eBook 18: The Beggar-King of Ithaca\u003cbr\u003eBook 19: Penelope and her Guest\u003cbr\u003eBook 20: Portents Gather\u003cbr\u003eBook 21: Odysseus Stings his Bow\u003cbr\u003eBook 22: Slaughter in the Hall\u003cbr\u003eBook 23: The Great Rooted Bed\u003cbr\u003eBook 24: Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Postscript\u003cbr\u003eGenealogies\u003cbr\u003eTextual Variants from the Oxford Classical Text\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Translation\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003ePronouncing Glossary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCopyright date 1996.;Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-520).;Translated by Robert Fagles, and with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox, the team who collaborated on the award-winning edition of Homer's The Iliad, The Odyssey is Homer's classic account of the great wanderings of Odysseus.;Translated from the ancient Greek.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginally published: London: Viking, 1996.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for Robert Fagles Translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wonderfully readable... Just the right blend of roughness and sophistication.\"--Ted Hughes \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Robert Fagles is the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English.\"--Garry Wills, \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mr. Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time and yet timeless.\"--Richard Jenkyns, \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHomer \u003c\/b\u003ewas the poet who the Greeks believed singularly composed \n\u003ci\u003eThe Iliad \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e. Nothing is known of his life. While seven Greek cities claim the honor of being his birthplace, ancient tradition places him in Ionia, located in the eastern Aegean coast. His birthdate is undocumented as well, though most modern scholars place the composition of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Iliad \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey \u003c\/i\u003ein the late eighth or early seventh century B.C. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRobert Fagles \u003c\/b\u003e(1933-2008) was the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Compara­tive Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He re­ceived a National Humanities Medal in 2006 and won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Acad­emy of American Poets twice, once for Ho­mer's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Iliad \u003c\/i\u003ein 1991 and then again in 2007 for \n\u003ci\u003eThe Aeneid\u003c\/i\u003e. His translations of Sophocles's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Three Theban Plays\u003c\/i\u003e, Aeschylus's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Oresteia \u003c\/i\u003e(nominated for a National Book Award), \n\u003ci\u003eThe Iliad \u003c\/i\u003e(which also won an award from The Translation Center of Columbia University), and Homer's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e are all published in Penguin Classics. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBernard Knox\u003c\/b\u003e (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He won the 1976-77 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and the 1990 PEN\/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for \n\u003ci\u003eEssays Ancient and Modern\u003c\/i\u003e. Knox fought in the Spanish Civil War and World War II; France decorated him with the Croix de Guerre for special operations behind German lines in 1944, and the US Army awarded him two Bronze Stars for combat in Italy. He also edited \n\u003ci\u003eThe Norton Book of Classical Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and collaborated with Robert Fagles on \n\u003ci\u003eThe Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003eThe Three Theban Plays\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, Polyphemus the Cyclops; he visits the underworld; he faces the terrible monsters Scylla and Charybdis; he extricates himself from the charms of Circe and Calypso. After these and numerous other legendary encounters he finally reaches home, where, disguised as a beggar, he begins to plan revenge on the suitors who have for years been besieging Penelope and feasting on his own meat and wine with insolent impunity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classics Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eSo begins Robert Fagles's magnificent translation of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival against divine and natural forces on his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Fagles's translation of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, enhanced with maps, genealogy tables, and pronunciation guides, has been the touchstone translation of Homer's epic for millions of readers. With an introduction and textual commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox, the Fagles translation of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey \u003c\/i\u003ewill continue to captivate the general reader and scholar alike. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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