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Iliad, The; Odyssey, The (Boxed Set)Product no.: 0-14-771255-6Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles.
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Publisher's Synopsis |
Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic.
If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.
Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.
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Robert Fagles is the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
The Iliad was a New York Times Notable Book and won the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets, an award from the Translation Center of Columbia University, and the New Jersey Humanities Book Award
The Odyssey was chosen by Time as one of the ten Best Books of 1996
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Excerpt |
"Rage — Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles,
murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles..." ~The Iliad "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns |
Author | Homer |
Contributor | Knox, Bernard |
Translator | Fagles, Robert |
Book Type | Trade Paperback |
Page Count | Boxed Set |
Publisher | Penguin Books 1999 |