Odyssey (Hackett Classics)

Odyssey (Hackett Classics)

by Homer (Author), Homer (Author), Stanley Lombardo (Translator), Sheila Murnaghan (Introduction)

Synopsis

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 478
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Published: 01 Apr 2000

ISBN 10: 0872204847
ISBN 13: 9780872204843

Media Reviews
[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald. . . to his version of the Odyssey . His carefully honed syntax gives the narrative energy and a whirlwind pace. The lines, rhythmic and clipped, have the tautness and force of Odysseus' bow.--Chris Hedges, The New York Times Book Review
The definitive English version of Homer for our time.-- The Common Review: The Magazine of the Great Books Foundation
Lombardo weaves his cherished idioms into important patterns of repetition and transformation so familiar to the telling of the Odyssey. . . Above all, such familiar phrases serve to remind us of the oral character of the original Odyssey , providing the reader with an uncanny immediacy and relevance.--Christina Zwarg, The Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Author Bio
Stanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas. Sheila Murnaghan is Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania.