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 The Odyssey in all its glory. The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green.

The Iliad is set during the ninth year of the Trojan War, fought between the city of Troy and a coalition of cities in Greece inhabited by the Achaeans. A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles’s award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature ONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles’s interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon. Featuring an enticingly personal introduction, a detailed synopsis of each book, a wide-ranging glossary, and explanatory notes for the few puzzling in-text items, the book also includes a select bibliography for those who want to learn more about Homer and the Greek epic. The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, was traditionally said to have been authored by Homer, an obscure figure about whom nothing is known. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers. One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. A retelling of the Iliad set in the Irish borderlands in the dying days of the Troubles might sound like hard work, but Michael Hughes’ 2018 novel somehow manages to be relentlessly.

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