The Iliad / The Odyssey
by Homer
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Author: HomerEditor: Bernard Knox
Introduction: Bernard Knox
Translator: Robert Fagles
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Box set
Published: 1999-11-01
ISBN: 0147712556
Number of pages: 1
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Reviews of The Iliad / The Odyssey
Book Review: A Man of many twists and turns
Summary: 5 Stars
The question is not should you read Homer but what translation to read. The Iliad and The Odyssey have surivived longer than any other western story because they speak to us, even today, powerfully of life and are deep enought to speak differently at diferent points in our own life. Both books teach us lessons from our forgtten past and tell us how men and women should live their lives. The Iliad opens with the strugle between Achilles and Agamenon. Anyone who works in an office can recognize these characters and their struggles as they occur today on the smaller stage of our cubicles.
What will draw you to Fagle is the words. He opens the Odyssey not by saying Odysseus is devious but by saying "He is a man of many twists and turn". This implies not just that Odysseus is devious but that his trip home will not be a straight path. It's also a beautiful phrase that captures Homer better than any more formal and literal translation.
All I can say is that I love these books and this is the translation I enjoy the most.
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