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Author: Homer 

 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 Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in the New York Times Book Review hails as “a distinguished achievement.”

If the Iliad is the world’s greatest war epic, the Odyssey 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. 

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 Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox’s superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles’s translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a new generation of Homer’s students. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Odyssey 1st Table of contents:

• Book 1: The Gods Assemble

  • The gods discuss Odysseus’ fate
  • Athena decides to help Odysseus return home

• Book 2: Telemachus Sets Sail

  • Telemachus begins his journey to find news of his father

• Book 3: The Phaeacians

  • Telemachus meets King Nestor

• Book 4: The House of Menelaus

  • Telemachus visits Menelaus in Sparta

• Book 5: Odysseus and Calypso

  • Odysseus is held captive by the nymph Calypso

• Book 6: Nausicaa

  • Odysseus encounters Nausicaa, the daughter of King Alcinous

• Book 7: The Palace of Alcinous

  • Odysseus is received by King Alcinous and the Phaeacians

• Book 8: The Phaeacian Games

  • The Phaeacians hold athletic games for Odysseus

• Book 9: The Cyclops

  • Odysseus’ encounter with Polyphemus the Cyclops

• Book 10: Circe

  • Odysseus and his men are turned into pigs by the sorceress Circe

• Book 11: The Land of the Dead

  • Odysseus visits the Underworld to consult the prophet Tiresias

• Book 12: The Sirens and Scylla

  • Odysseus encounters the Sirens and the monster Scylla

• Book 13: Return to Ithaca

  • Odysseus finally returns home to Ithaca

• Book 14: The Swineherd

  • Odysseus meets Eumaeus, the swineherd, and begins to plan his revenge

• Book 15: Telemachus Returns

  • Telemachus returns home and learns of the situation with the suitors

• Book 16: Odysseus and Telemachus Reunite

  • Father and son reunite to plan their attack on the suitors

• Book 17: The Return of the King

  • Odysseus enters his palace disguised as a beggar

• Book 18: The Beggar’s Fight

  • Odysseus, still disguised, faces off against a suitor

• Book 19: Penelope’s Recognition

  • Penelope speaks with the disguised Odysseus

• Book 20: The Test of the Bow

  • Odysseus strings his bow and prepares for the final confrontation

• Book 21: The Slaughter of the Suitors

  • Odysseus reveals his identity and kills the suitors

• Book 22: The Revenge of Odysseus

  • The final battle and the punishment of the disloyal servants

• Book 23: Penelope’s Test

  • Penelope tests Odysseus to confirm his identity

• Book 24: The Reunion

  • Odysseus reunites with his family and restores order to his household

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