The Odyssey (Unabridged)

<b>The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles<br /><br />Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan<br /></b><br />Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning modern-verse translation. "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the <i>Odyssey</i>, which Jasper Griffin in the <i>New York Times Book Review</i> hails as "a distinguished achievement."<br /><br />If the <i>Iliad</i> is the world's greatest war epic, the <i>Odyssey</i> is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.<br /><br />In the myths and legends retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an <i>Odyssey</i> to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an <i>Odyssey</i> to delight both the classicist and the general listener, to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.