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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)

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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 anOdysseyto read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.

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This is an Odysseyto delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer’s students. He also taught at Yale University, becoming a full professor in 1959, and became the founding director of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, a position he held until 1985. In 1939, he married Betty Baur and began teaching Latin at a private school in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Magnificent Seven meets The Wind in the Willows in this action-packed fantasy adventure from Daniel Polansky, The Builders.Renowned classicist Bernard Knox’s superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles’s translation. This title presents you with the author's best-loved poem, recounting Odysseus' wanderings after the Trojan War. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 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 Odysseyto read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Many tests of strength and character ensue as Odysseus's journey stretches out over the years, taking in a multitude of strange and wonderful places and creatures.

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This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to share this book. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years’ time. What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own transgressions which bring them suffering that was not their destiny. He taught at Yale for one year and then joined the faculty at Princeton University as an English professor and remained there until he retired in 2002.Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a new generation of Homer’s students.

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Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. With the Trojan war finally over after many long years, Odysseus wants nothing more than a swift journey home where his throne and beloved wife, Penelope, await him. While at Princeton, he created the university's department of comparative literature and received an honorary doctorate in June 2007.At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. The ancient story is told in easy-going, beautiful poetry, the characters speak naturally and the action moves along briskly.

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His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles’ Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).All the survivors of the war had reached their homes by now and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them. The second thrilling installment of the award-winning Nevernight Chronicle, from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff.

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