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Raquel
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This college semester was a journey of "firsts" for me-- first semester at university, first time living in a different state than my family, first time living in a big city, first time seeing a drug deal, first Muslim friend, first agnostic friend, first this and first that. Much like Telemachus' transformation in the Odyssey, I developed from my innocent, naive, and immature self to one with more knowledge and maturity. Much like Odysseus' journey homeward, I had new experiences which brought me to the home of my existence, my heart and soul. In these ways, and more, I related to Homer's Odyssey. But even still... had I not been so closely attached to the epic poem, the story of adventure, betrayal, deceit, renewal, reunion, love, testing, and ultimate reconciliation stands alone--spanning the test of time-- to bring true satisfaction. Let Homer be your guy. Let the Odyssey be your book.
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waitingtoleave compares various translations, and I can't comment on Greek words or metrical sense. I can say that Fagles propels his story along swiftly and entices the reader into his form of metrical rendering of the text. The Odyssey is an intensely modern work in its structure. Presenting it as a collection of short stories or isolated events has insulted the genius of its story telling. A few lines after the beginning, rendered by Fagles as "Sing to me of the man, Muse," comes the odd direction, "launch out where you will - sing for our time too." In ancient times that may have allowed an oral presenter to take up the story at any point, but hints that the story doesn't have to unwind chronologically so long as the beginning and end are included. So the story twists and turns. The Odyssey is told with a cinematic sense of scene cuts and flashbacks and questionably reliable narrators. Fagles makes of this epic a book that lets readers plow through as with a modern novel, allowing the metric arrangement of lines the text to provide a sense of antiquity while translating a sense of the original text so it sings for our time too. "Translator's Postscript" and "Notes on the Translation" satisfied my need for detail on how other times might have taken in The Odyssey for their own times. I bow to waitingtoleave for his ability to compare translations. I embrace this Fagles translation as utterly fulfilling for me reading in my time. Knowing the Odyssey only through renderings of isolated bits and pieces (tricking the Cyclops, threading Scylla and Charybdis, etc., etc.) might meet the command to "launch where you will," but fails to tell anything like the tale of the man of twists and turns that Fagles presents, and doesn't hint at the other plot threads following the wife and son of Odysseus that twine together to make the complete tale.
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this is an amazing book, with something for anyone. if you are interested in studying philosophy, you'll find it here. but, you can also read a great adventure story with fables and a love story written in. in that sense, this is a great translation; if you want to read this for the sake of entertainment, Fagles is a great translator. if you want to read for philosophical discussion, however, he might not serve your purposes. the thing you have to know about Fagles is, he often inserts adjectives and the feel of the entire story changes. so, if you want fidelity to the Greek words, try Lattimore. if you want fidelity to the Greek metrical sense, try Mandelbaum or Pope. and if you want fidelity to the Greek adventure epic, Fagles is your guy.
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ISBN:
9780140268867
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
11/01/1997
Publisher:
PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE
Series info:
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Pages:
560
Height:
1.50IN
Width:
5.70IN
Thickness:
1.50
Age Range:
18 and up
Grade Range:
13 and up
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1996
Series Volume:
EPA-650/2-74-081
UPC Code:
2800140268869
Author:
Homer
Author:
Robert Fagles
Intro:
Bernard Knox
Author:
Homer
Author:
Fagles
Subject:
Classical literature
Subject:
Epic literature
Subject:
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Subject:
Epic poetry, Greek
Subject:
Continental european
Subject:
Odysseus
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Odysseus (Greek mythology)
Subject:
Classics-Medieval and Renaissance General
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