About the Book: The Odyssey
Literatures grandest evocation of lifes journey, at once an ageless human story
and an individual test of moral endurance, Homers ancient Greek epic The Odyssey
is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in
Penguin Classics. When Robert Fagles translation of The Iliad was published in
1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece. Here, one of the
great modern translators presents us with The Odyssey, Homers best-loved poem,
recounting Odysseus wanderings after the Trojan War. With wit and wile, the man
of twists and turns meets the challenges of the sea-god Poseidon, and