- Published: 1 October 2007
- ISBN: 9780099511687
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 480
- RRP: $24.00
The Odyssey











The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront him? This rich and beautiful adventure story is one of the most influential works of literature in the world.
- Published: 1 October 2007
- ISBN: 9780099511687
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 480
- RRP: $24.00
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About the author
Homer, name traditionally assigned to the author of the ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY, the two major epics of Greek antiquity. Nothing is known of Homer as an individual, and in fact it is a matter of controversy whether a single person can be said to have written both the ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY. Linguistic and historical evidence, however, suggests that the poems were composed in the Greek settlements on the west coast of Asia Minor sometime in the 8th century BC.
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 Ulysses’s wanderings.
Praise for The Odyssey
Homer's Odyssey is still enchanting readers after thousands of years
Guardian
Surely the best and truest Odyssey in the English language
Herald Tribune
Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has the economy and soar of a poet
George Steiner
A strong salty flavour of its own. And it makes you see things
C.S. Lewis
The Homeric poems are interesting...because of the way in which they present human shocks and surprises... It is the surprising twist that war brings to the domestic...which makes Homer repeatedly shocking
London Review of Books
Of all bookes extant in all kinds, Homer is the first and best...writ from a free furie, an absolute and full soule
George Chapman