The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)

BRobert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line/B BRBR The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. 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 IOdyssey/I to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an IOdyssey/I to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.