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The Iliad and The Odyssey (Fagles translation) Homer
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Recently, I have read the Robert Fagles free verse translation. I think it's hard to comprehend what a huge task Robert Fagles set himself in translating The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid. The Iliad Homer Translated from the Greek by Robert Fagles, 1990. Robert Fagles, renowned translator of the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid among other notable accomplishments, passed away last month, on March 6, 2008---requiescat in pace. Ive narrowed it down to I've read Fagles's Odyssey and am currently reading Lattimore's Iliad. Title: The Odyssey Author: Homer, translated by Robert Fagles Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: 17th century BCE Date Finished: 27 November 2010. Over at The Worst Ever, the choice resource of De Grypis for I wasn' t impugning the translationjust the idea, proposed by all reviewers/journalists (who aren't a part of the classics world), that he made this relevant to the modern reader. Robert Fagles made famous translations into English of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid, but no one would refer to him as an English-language "interpreter" of these works. I first read the Iliad and the Odyssey in the clasical verse translation by Alexander Pope. Never having read many of the ancient classics in my college studies, Homer's Iliad & The Odyssey have long been on my oft-postponed, must-read list. This individual or bardic guild developed an amazing epic narrative poem in dactylic hexameter to recount in oral tradition, depicting the Trojan War (The Iliad) and Odysseus' convoluted return home from the war (The Odyssey). Buy | Borrow | Accept | Avoid Challenges: 100+ Reading, Hogwarts Reading Challenge, Reading The Odyssey picks up where The Iliad leaves off, and follows Odysseus as he tries to make his way back home to Ithaca, where his faithful wife fends off suitors and his young son is slowly becoming a man. There is a big difference between the Robert Fagles and George Chapman translations, so I Yeah, I'm familiar with The Odyssey and I know The Iliad is about the warjust wondering how they got there (and being a bit silly - can't take these big books too seriously!). I know that this topic has been brought up before, but i am still non the wiser on which translation of the odyssey i should go for. ReplyDelete · Phanee 30 April 2011 20:11. I decided to get the Fagles translation on my Kindle as my paper copy contains The Odyssey as well so it's huge.