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The Odyssey

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Odyssey
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Homer
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:528
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 135
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781857150940
ClassificationsDewey:883.01
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 8 October 1992
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has an economy and soar of a poet'. Introduced by Seamus Heaney

Author Biography

Homer Homer (Author) Homer is a much-debated figure traditionally considered to have composed the two great oral poems The Odyssey and The Iliad in eighth or seventh-century-BC Greece