Coetzee About the Author Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulyssess wanderings. It is fitting that one of the great translators of The Iliad and The Odyssey in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of The Aeneid. During this conflict, the Achaeans, from Mainland Greece, set off. Richard Jenkyns, The New York Times Book Review Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgils drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. The first work of Western literature, The Iliad is a fresco that traces the long Trojan War.

Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time and yet timeless. about The Odyssey Review Quotes Robert Fagles is the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English. Each volume contains a superb introduction by renowned classicist Bernard Knox. Homers epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious. The Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid are collected here for the first time in a specially designed gift box.

Book Synopsis A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagless award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature ONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagless interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon.

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