The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green
| AUTHOR | Homer; Green, Peter |
| PUBLISHER | University of California Press (04/23/2019) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green's version, with its lyrical mastery and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to enjoy Homer's epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition.
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Product Details
ISBN-13:
9780520303362
ISBN-10:
0520303369
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
536
Carton Quantity:
24
Product Dimensions:
5.60 x 1.50 x 8.60 inches
Weight:
1.65 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Price on Product,
Maps,
Glossary
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Poetry | Ancient & Classical
Poetry | Ancient and Classical
Poetry | Folklore & Mythology
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level:
0
Point Value:
0
Guided Reading Level:
Not Applicable
Dewey Decimal:
883.01
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
jacket front
"This is a triumph, a worthy successor to Peter Green's outstanding translation of The Iliad. The style is flexible, sometimes colloquial, and often touching the heights, while being always immensely accessible to a modern reader. No version known to me is better at conveying the feeling as well as the sense of the original, and it takes a poet as well as a scholar to do it so well."--Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University "Clear, concise, and poetic. Literally an epic achievement. Peter Green has done it again."--Eric H. Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology and the Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at George Washington University Praise for Peter Green's translation of The Iliad: "Taken as a whole, this is the best line-for-line translation of the poem I know."--London Review of Books "Peter Green's particular merit lies in achieving a clarity and fluidity that carries the reader forward. A notable achievement."--Times Literary Supplement "[Green] gets the interpretation right without interrupting the forward motion that is always Homer's aim--and this is one of the great virtues of Green's translation as a whole: its limber fluency."--New York Review of Books
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The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green's version, with its lyrical mastery and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to enjoy Homer's epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition.
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Translator:
Green, Peter
Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. Novelist and scholar, his recent books include "Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C." (California, 1991), "Alexander to Actium" (California, 1990), and "The Laughter of Aphrodite" (California, 1993).
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