{"product_id":"the-odyssey-hardcover-2","title":"The Odyssey - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHomer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey \u003c\/i\u003eis vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e in all its glory. Green's version, with its lyrical mastery and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to enjoy Homer's epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a triumph, a worthy successor to Peter Green's outstanding translation of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIliad. \u003c\/i\u003eThe style is flexible, sometimes colloquial, and often touching the heights, while being always immensely accessible to a modern reader. No version known to me is better at conveying the feeling as well as the sense of the original, and it takes a poet as well as a scholar to do it so well.--Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Clear, concise, and poetic. Literally an epic achievement. Peter Green has done it again.\"--Eric H. Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology and the Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at George Washington University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Peter Green's translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Taken as a whole, this is the best line-for-line translation of the poem I know.\"--\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Peter Green's particular merit lies in achieving a clarity and fluidity that carries the reader forward. A notable achievement.\"--\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"[Green] gets the interpretation right without interrupting the forward motion that is always Homer's aim--and this is one of the great virtues of Green's translation as a whole: its limber fluency.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Green \u003c\/b\u003eis Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. One of the most prolific scholars of the ancient world, he is the author of both historical studies and translations of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Poems of Catullus, \u003c\/i\u003e Apollonios's \u003ci\u003eThe Argonautika, \u003c\/i\u003e and Homer's\u003ci\u003e The Iliad, \u003c\/i\u003e all by UC Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47571371884765,"sku":"9781613825808","price":40.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/VTZ4SkRJSTVGZHNhWHhYbUFTZjlTUT09.webp?v=1773371633","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-odyssey-hardcover-2","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}