EAN: 9780241733585

HOMER THE ODYSSEY

A TELEGRAPH BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2025  A magnificent new translation of the Odyssey by
best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn    'This may be the best translation of
The Odyssey yet. Daniel Mendelsohn's rendering of Homer's text is both highly readable and
faithful to the original metre. It's impressive  thrilling stuff... a sonorous new translation'
- Edith Hall  The Telegraph   With his Odyssey   best-selling author and classicist Daniel
Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work  hailed by classicists and poets alike - a
translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles.  Setting aside the
streamlining  modernizing approach of many recent translations  Mendelsohn artfully reproduces
the epic's formal qualities - meter  enjambment  alliteration  assonance - and in so doing
restores to Homer's master work its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line  far closer
to the original than that of other recent translations  allows him to capture each of Homer's
verses line for line  without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.  The
result is the richest  most precise  and most musical Odyssey in English  one that fully
conveys its oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure  profound human
insight and powerful themes that make Homer's work resonate some twenty-eight centuries after
its composition. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary
currently available  Mendelsohn's Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative
English-language version of this magnificent  endlessly enjoyable masterpiece.

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