The Iliad and The Odyssey (Fagles translation). Homer

The Iliad and The Odyssey (Fagles translation)


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The Iliad and The Odyssey (Fagles translation) Homer
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We'll set aside for the moment the inevitable questions of the pedagogical efficacy of that and move on to this: During my last year there, we adopted the Fagels Iliad, kept the Lattimore Odyssey over Fagels', and used the Fitzgerald Aeneid. Idly browsing in the bookshop today I chanced upon a copy of the new Robert Fagles Aeneid translation (in truth it was pretty hard to miss: there was a great big stack of 'em on the shelf; and it's a pretty bulky hardback tome, . Setting out from Troy in Turkey, Like the Iliad, the Odyssey may have been written by Homer, who may or may not have been blind, or by a committee of poets. But if Fagles' long-awaited version sells like his editions of The Iliad and The Odyssey, it will eventually be known to hundreds of thousands of readers, by choice and by assignment. Achilles-florathexplora.jpg Robert Fagles, the New York Times reports, has died at home in Princeton, N.J., at 74. Hawaii_Jake (23159 points )“Great Answer” (1 points ) Flag as… ¶. Fremen_warrior (5381 points )“Great Answer” (2 points ) Flag as… . Cause of death, prostate cancer. I know I might be oversimplifying this, but in my opinion the Odyssey in its own way shows a slightly better side of the human psyche, and that is why it we might like it more over Iliad. Armed with half a lifetime's sailing experience, equipped with the latest navigation gear, up to their necks in charts, treatises and translations of the Robert Fagles), they followed his presumed route, rowing ashore for fun, fresh water and local research wherever he was supposed to have landed. @bea2345 : As an undergraduate, I had the Lattimore translation, and then later in graduate school, the wonderful Fagles translations were published.





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