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Robert Fagles’s Translations
of Homer
with Introductions and Notes
by Bernard Knox
The Iliad
This handsome deluxe edition of Fagles’s
finely tuned translation brings the horror
and heroism of the Trojan War into sharp
relief.
704 pp. 978-0-14-027536-0 $17.00
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
The Iliad
Fagles combines his talents as poet and
scholar to present this masterful, elegant
translation of the stirring story of the
Trojan War and the rage of Achilles.
672 pp. 978-0-14-044592-3 $13.00
“an astonishing performance. There is no
modern version of the whole Iliad which
is better or as good, and this should now
become the standard translation for a new
generation.” —peter levi
The Odyssey
Odysseus’s ten-year voyage home to Ithaca
after the Trojan War is a timeless human
story of moral endurance. In this elegantly
packaged edition, Fagles has captured the
energy and poetry of Homer’s original in
bold, contemporary idiom.
560 pp. 978-0-14-026886-7 $16.00
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Great Books Foundation Readers Guide Available
The Odyssey
Renowned translator Robert Fagles
has captured the energy and poetry of
Homer’s original in a bold, contemporary
idiom and given us an Odyssey to read
aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its
sheer lyrical mastery.
560 pp. 978-0-14-303995-2 $17.00
The Iliad and The Odyssey
Boxed Set
The deluxe editions of Fagles’s magnificent
translations of Homer are here combined
in a beautifully designed boxed set.
1,264 978-0-14-771255-4 $33.00
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
The Iliad, The Odyssey, and
The Aeneid Boxed Set
Translated by Robert Fagles
Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox
Collected here for the first time are the
Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions of
The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid,
presented in a specially-designed gift box.
1,968 pp. 978-0-14-750560-6 $50.00
See Virgil.
hoMer
The Greeks believed that The Iliad and The Odyssey were composed by a single
poet whom they named Homer. Nothing is known of his life. While seven Greek
cities claim the honor of being his birthplace, ancient tradition and the dialect
and locational knowledge of the poems place him in Ionia, located in the eastern
Aegean. His birthdate is undocumented as well, though most modern scholars
now place the composition of The Iliad and The Odyssey between 725 and
675 b.c. The subject of Homer’s epics involves the Trojan War, generally dated
around 1200 b.c., but they actually reflect the eighth-century world of the Eastern
Mediterranean; a world of dramatic growth and expansion, emerging out of the
Dark Ages that followed the collapse of the Mycenaen civilization in the twelfth
century.
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