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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
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  • A major new translation of Homer's great epic poem that encapsulates the power of cunning over strength, the pitfalls of temptation and the importance of home
  • Anthony Verity's rendering transmits the directness, power, and dignity of Homer's poetry in an elegant and accurate translation that respects the original line numbers
  • William Allan, an authority in classical Greek tragedy and epic, offers a full introduction that guides the reader in understanding the composition of the poem, the major themes of the narrative, and situates the poem in its original cultural context
  • The line-by-line format of the translation is invaluable for those wishing to coordinate it with the Greek text or references in secondary literature
  • Extensive notes offer book-by-book summaries and elucidate difficult words and passages
  • The bibliography offers a succinct guide to further scholarship in English; a full index of names enables the reader to trace particular characters through the text; map showing the known Greek world traversed by Odysseus between Troy and Ithaca

     
'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven 
far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy'

   
Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to claim Odysseus' wife Penelope, and his young son Telemachus is powerless to stop them. Meanwhile, Odysseus is driven beyond the limits of the known world, encountering countless divine and earthly challenges. But Odysseus is 'of many wiles' and his cunning and bravery eventually lead him home, to reclaim both his family and his kingdom. 
   
The Odyssey rivals the Iliad as the greatest poem of Western culture and is perhaps the most influential text of classical literature. This elegant and compelling new translation is accompanied by a full introduction and notes that guide the reader in understanding the poem and the many different contexts in which it was performed and read.

Index: 

Introduction
Note on the Text
Note on the Translation
Select Bibliography
Map
THE ODYSSEY
Explanatory Notes
Index of Personal Names

About the author: 

Homer
Anthony Verity, Former Master of Dulwich College, and William Allan, McConnell Laing Fellow and Tutor in Classics, University College, Oxford
 
 
Anthony Verity is a classical scholar and educationalist whose appointments include Head of Classics at Bristol Grammar School, Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School, and Master of Dulwich College from 1986 to 1995. His translations for Oxford World's Classics include Theocritus, Idylls, Pindar, The Complete Odes, and the Iliad.
  
William Allan is McConnell Laing Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at University College, Oxford. His previous publications include The Andromache and Euripidean Tragedy (2000), Euripides: The Children of Heracles (2001), Euripides: Medea(2002), Euripides: Helen (2008), Homer: The Iliad (2012), and Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2014).

"Verity offers an excellent, clear, traditionally literal but avowedly non-poetic [translation]." - Colin Burrow, London Review of Books
  

"Undoubtedly a leader in its genre... It is a distinguished addition to the Oxford 'World's Classics' series." - Roger Barnes, Classics for All

Product details

ISBN : 9780198736479

Author: 
Homer; Anthony Verity
Pages
384 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Feb 2018
Series
Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks
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The Odyssey

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The Odyssey