The Odyssey, Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox
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The Odyssey, Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-519)
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no index present
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non fiction
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The Odyssey
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34583995
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Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox
Summary
A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War
Table Of Contents
Introduction: The spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names -- Maps: Homeric geography : Mainland Greece ; Homeric geography : the Peloponnese ; Homeric geography : the Aegean and Asia Minor -- Inset: Troy and vicinity -- Homer: Odyssey. Athena inspires the prince -- Telemachus sets sail -- King Nestor remembers -- The king and queen of Sparta -- Odysseus--Nymph and shipwreck -- The princess and the stranger -- Phaeacia's halls and gardens -- A day for songs and contests -- In the one-eyed giant's cave -- The bewitching queen of Aeaea -- The kingdom of the dead -- The cattle of the sun -- Ithaca at last -- The loyal swineherd -- The prince sets sail for home -- Father and son -- Stranger at the gates -- The beggar-king of Ithaca -- Penelope and her guest -- Portents gather -- Odysseus strings his bow -- Slaughter in the hall -- The great rooted bed -- Peace -- Notes: Translator's postscript ; Genealogies ; Textual variants fromt he Oxford classical text ; Notes on the translation -- Pronouncing glossary
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