EAN: 9780241733585

HOMER THE ODYSSEY

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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