EAN: 9780241733585

HOMER THE ODYSSEY

'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 
bestselling 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 masterwork 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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