{"title":"The Odyssey","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9781435167940-retail-the-iliad-the-odyssey-barnes-noble-collectible-editions","title":"The Iliad \u0026 The Odyssey (Barnes \u0026 Noble Collectible Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Homer\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 752 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublished: Sterling Juvenile, United States, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomer's two epics of the ancient world, \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, tell stories as riveting today as when they were written between the eighth and ninth century B.C. This edition employs Samuel Butler's classic translations of both texts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e, which tells of the siege of Troy by the Greeks, is an unforgettable tale of nations at war and of the courage and compassion heroic soldiers show upon the field of battle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of the Greek hero Odysseus and the many marvels and challenges he encounters during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the end of the Trojan War. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46245222613211,"sku":"9781435167940-RETAIL","price":53.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/86ecc576f2744a07a3cdee4d3f05006c.png?v=1731290305"},{"product_id":"9780140447941-retail-the-iliad","title":"The Iliad","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, he storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death. Interwoven with this tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, of the domestic world inside Troy's besieged city of Ilium, and of the conflicts between the Gods on Olympus as they argue over the fate of mortals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomer is thought to have lived c.750-700 BC in Ionia and is believed to be the author of the earliest works of Western Literature- The Odyssey and The Iliad. E V Rieu was a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek, and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-64. His son, D C H Rieu, has revised his work. Peter Jones is former lecturer in Classics at Newcastle. He co-founded the 'Friends of Classics' society and is the editor of their journal and a columnist for The Spectator.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46658775089371,"sku":"9780140447941-RETAIL","price":15.29,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7ce064b1d7614270b7acbb97fb05f5df.png?v=1743570108"},{"product_id":"9780140268867-retail-the-odyssey","title":"The Odyssey","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles\n\nA Penguin Classic\n \n 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 Reviewhails as \"a distinguished achievement.\"\n\n 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.\n\n 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.\n\nFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.\nIn the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time.\nRobert Fagles (1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN\/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles's Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus's Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer's Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer's Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid.\n\n Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Heroic Temper- Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes- Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN\/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46659176202459,"sku":"9780140268867-RETAIL","price":28.04,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/54c6f0376d37441b823dfc7147f9e408.png?v=1743582226"},{"product_id":"9780141394657-retail-the-iliad","title":"The Iliad","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition\n\nThe Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture. The story centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determine the fate of Troy. But Homer's theme is not simply war or heroism. With compassion and humanity, he presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven Greek cities claim the honour of being the birthplace of Homer (c. 8th-7th century BC), the poet to whom the composition of the Iliad and Odyssey are attributed. The Iliad is the oldest surviving work of Western literature, but the identity - or even the existence - of Homer himself is a complete mystery, with no reliable biographical information having survived.\n\nE. V. Rieu initiated Penguin Classics with Allen Lane and his famous translation of the Odyssey was the first book published in the series in 1947. 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Fagles'  version is imbued with humanity'\nOliver Taplin, The New York Times Book Review\n'Robert Fagles has given us an Iliad to read aloud- eloquent, rhythmical, and full of power'\nJasper Griffin, Oxford University","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48183536287963,"sku":"9780140445923-RETAIL","price":25.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1cef5b2a-fc97-41c1-9b87-f6072adfc728.jpg?v=1769182581"},{"product_id":"9780241733585-retail-the-odyssey-a-new-translation-by-daniel-mendelsohn","title":"The Odyssey: A New Translation by Daniel Mendelsohn","description":"A magnificent new translation of the Odyssey by best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn \n\nWith his Odyssey, best-selling 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. 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In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert 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. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.\n\nFor 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. 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This vivid new poetic translation-the first ever by a woman-matches the number of lines in the Greek original, thus striding at Homer's sprightly pace. Eschewing showy poeticisms and high-flown rhetoric, Emily Wilson employs elemental, resonant language and a five-beat line to produce a translation with an enchanting \"rhythm and rumble\" that avoids proclaiming its own grandeur or importance.   An engrossing tale told in a compelling new voice that allows contemporary readers to luxuriate in Homer's magical descriptions and similes and to thrill at the tension and excitement of its hero's fantastical adventures, Wilson's  Odyssey  recaptures what is \"epic\" about this wellspring of world literature. 3 maps","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48573785014491,"sku":"9780393089059-RETAIL","price":56.06,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/odyss_fae41c03-cad6-48c5-80ac-6a72a0de3e39.jpg?v=1781585625"},{"product_id":"9781324076148-retail-the-iliad","title":"The Iliad","description":"When Emily Wilson's translation of  The Odyssey  appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was \"fresh, unpretentious and lean\" (Madeline Miller,  Washington Post )-critics lauded it as \"a revelation\" (Susan Chira,  New York Times ) and \"a cultural landmark\" (Charlotte Higgins,  Guardian ) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. 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The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48573797138651,"sku":"9781324076148-RETAIL","price":28.01,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ilias.jpg?v=1781572766"},{"product_id":"9781324001805-retail-the-iliad","title":"The Iliad","description":"When Emily Wilson's translation of  The Odyssey  appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was \"fresh, unpretentious and lean\" (Madeline Miller,  Washington Post )-critics lauded it as \"a revelation\" (Susan Chira,  New York Times ) and \"a cultural landmark\" (Charlotte Higgins,  Guardian ) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. 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