The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)

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Homer , Fagles, Robert (TRN) , Knox, Bernard MacGreg 저자(글)

Penguin Classic · 2006년 11월 01일

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The Odyssey is literatures grandest evocation of everymans journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homers original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odysseyto read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an Odysseyto delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homers students.

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저자(글) Homer

Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives.

He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer ? the Iliad and the Odyssey ? are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.

In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller’s tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope.

We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact ‘Homer’ may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps ‘the hostage’ or ‘the blind one’. 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.

저자(글) Fagles, Robert (TRN)

저자(글) Knox, Bernard MacGreg

목차

• Translator's Preface ix
  Introduction xix
  1 Trouble at Home 3
  2 A Gathering and a Parting 16
  3 In the Great Hall of Nestor 28
  4 With Menelaos and Helen 43
  5 A Raft on the High Seas 67
  6 Laundry Friends 81
  7 The Warmest Welcome 91
  8 Songs, Challenges, Dances, and Gifts 101
  9 A Battle, the Lotos, and a Savage's Cave 118
  10 Mad Winds, Laistrugonians, and an Enchantress 135
  11 The Land of the Dead 152
  12 Evil Song, a Deadly Strait, and Forbidden Herds 171
  13 A Strange Arrival Home 184
  14 The House of the Swineherd 197
  15 Son and Father Converging 213
  16 Father and Son Reunited 229
  17 Unknown in His Own House 243
  18 Fights in the Great Hall 261
  19 Memory and Dream in the Palace 274
  20 Dawn of the Death-Day 292
  21 The Stringing of the Bow 304
  22 Revenge in the Great Hall 317
  23 Husband and Wife at Last 332
  24 Last Tensions and Peace 343
  Notes 359
  Names in the Odyssey 409
  Bibliography 417

기본정보

ISBN	9780143039952 ( 0143039954 )
발행(출시)일자	2006년 11월 01일
쪽수	541쪽
크기	130 * 197 * 25 mm / 390 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어

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