The Odyssey HB

by DANIEL MENDELSOHN,HOMER CHAPMAN,

ISBN:	9780241733585
Book Name:	The Odyssey HB
Author:	DANIEL MENDELSOHN,HOMER CHAPMAN,
Publisher:	PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Edition:	FIRST
Language:	English
Binding:	Hard Back
Publish Year:	2025
Total Pages:	560
Availablity:	Only 1 Left in Stock

NPR 2398.00

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BOOK SUMMARY

With his Odyssey, bestselling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike―a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles. Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities – meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance – and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original. The result is the richest, most precise, and most musical Odyssey in English, one that fully conveys its oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight and powerful themes that make Homer’s work resonate some twenty-eight centuries after its composition. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Mendelsohn’s Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent, endlessly enjoyable masterpiece.

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