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Translated by Robert Fagles
Penguin Audiobooks, $45.95
11 hours
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Robert Fagles's new translation of The Odyssey is in every way as brilliant, accurate, and thrilling as his highly acclaimed translation of the Iliad, published six years ago.
Fagles renders Homer's verse pattern into an English equivalent that is as exciting and vibrant as the original, and he has done it in language that is contemporary yet heroic. Homer's epic tale of Odysseus's years of wanderings after the fall of Troy, trying against all odds to return home comes from an oral tradition.
Here, read by Ian McKellen, its bold, lyric force can be heard as it was all those millennia ago. This audio version is one to treasure. A booklet with the extensive introduction by Bernard Knox is included.
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