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010 _a27003026
020 _a9780140440010
024 _a3011605
050 _aPA4025.A5
082 _a883.01
100 1 _aHomer
245 1 _aThe Odyssey
260 _bPenguin Classics
300 _a368 pages
520 _a"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Times Review of Books hails as "a distinguished achievement." If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once the timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.
650 _aLiterature
700 1 _aE. V. Rieu (Translator)
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