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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) about?

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert FaglesA Penguin Classic 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 r

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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Homer
Publisher
Penguin Classics; Penguin Books
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780670821624
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry
Rating
3.73 / 5 (680,823 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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