Third edition. — Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. — 137 p. The best-selling, essential, and straightforward translation of the Homeric Hymns, accompanied by an expanded introduction and updated expert notes. A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric Hymns are also fine poetry. Attributed by the ancients to Homer, these prooimia, or preludes,...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. — 176 p. — ISBN: 1466880384; ISBN13: 9781466880382. W.H.D. Rouse (Translator). With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from the same imaginative sources as his epic poem Omeros. Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted...
Penguin Classics, 2003. — 174 p. — ISBN: 0140437827; ISBN13: 9780140437829. Jules Cashford (Translator), Nicholas Richardson (Introduction). Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They recount the key episodes in the lives of the gods, and dramatise the moments when they first appear...
London: William Heinemann. — 498 p. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus's long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic poem features Odysseus's encounters with the beautiful nymph Calypso; the queenly but wily Circe; the Lotus-eaters, who fed his...
London: William Heinemann. — 472 p. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus's long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic poem features Odysseus's encounters with the beautiful nymph Calypso; the queenly but wily Circe; the Lotus-eaters, who fed his...
2006, 838 pages.
The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the...
Barnes and Noble Classics, 2006. — 516 p. — ISBN: 1593082320; ISBN13: 9781593082321. Ennis Rees (Translator), Bruce M. King (Introduction). The Iliad, by Homer, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted...
Penguin Books, 1991. — 704 p. — ISBN: 1101153636; ISBN13: 9781101153635. Robert Fagles (translator), Bernard Knox (introduction). 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.
New American Library, 2015. — 444 p. — ISBN13: 9780698198296. W.H.D. Rouse (Translator). The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 1488 p. — (Oxford World's Classics). — ISBN: 0199235481, 0199645213. Translated by Verity Anthony, With an Introduction and Notes by Graziosi Barbara. War, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years, the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. It is a tale of many truths, speaking of...
Translat Emily Wilson’s. W. W. Norton, 2023. — 2160 р. — ISBN 978-1-324-00181-2 When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte...
Wordsworth Editions, 2012. — 976 p. — ISBN13: 9781848704848. George Chapman (Translator), Jan Parker (Introduction). Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questions about...
University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 608 p. — ISBN: 0226470482; ISBN13: 9780226470481. Richmond Lattimore, Richard Martin. For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the...
Penguin Books, 2001. — 560 p. — ISBN: 0786504528; ISBN13: 9780786504527. Robert Fagles (Translation), Bernard Knox (Introduction). In the myths and legends that are magnificently retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given readers an "Odyssey" to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical...
University of California Press, 2018. — 536 p. — ISBN: 0520293630; ISBN13: 9780520293632. Peter Green (Translator). The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the...
HarperCollins e-books, 2007. — 489 p.
Translated into English by Richmond Lattimore.
The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English.
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. — 515 p. — ISBN: 0374525749; ISBN13: 9780374525743. Robert Fitzgerald (Translator), D.S. Carne-Ross (Introduction by). The Odyssey" is a classical epic poem about the events following the fall of Troy and the end of the Trojan War which is generally thought to have been written at the end of the 8th century BC. The story centers on Odysseus and...
Penguin Classics, 2003. — 324 p. — ISBN: 0140449116; ISBN13: 9780140449112. E.V. Rieu (Translation), Peter Jones (Introduction), D.C.H. Rieu (Translation revision). This poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses, as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey home following the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year...
University of California Press, 2014. — 186 p. The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. Well before the advent of writing in Greece, they were performed by traveling bards at religious events, competitions, banquets, and festivals. These thirty-four poems invoking and...
Cambridge/London: Harvard University Press, 2003. — 467 p. — (Loeb Classical Library) — ISBN: 0-674-99606-2 Edited and translated by Martin Litchfield West Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess‒as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title "Hymns of...
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