Before Greece had tragedy, comedy, history, or even formal schools, there was Homer. Greeks, young and old, learned about the realities of life by hearing separate episodes from Homer sung at public festivals, and then remembering the stories through the power of song. What they remembered was what mattered most.
These epics offered bluntly honest views of life. Think of that as you are listening to Stanley Lombardo. When he performs Homer, we feel what Bob Dylan calls the inner substance of great folk songs, their pulse and vibration and rumbling force. We grasp the power words had before books, movies and iPods™. Homer taught the ancient Greeks about life, death, love and war. Now in Lombardos words and voice, Homer teaches us, too.
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THE ODYSSEY TRANSLATED BY Robert Fagles. Book I Athena Inspires the Prince Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds. In Homer, the Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Books, 1996. New York: Penguin Books, 1996. Knox’s long introduction to Fagles’ famous translation covers the poem’s text and transmission, debates about its composition, its style and meter, the geography of Odysseus’ wanderings, and its complicated narrative structure.
Search the history of over 380 billion web pages on the Internet. In this brilliant translation, Robert Fagles brings the vigor of contemporary language to Homer's 2,700-year-old tale. The result, the winner of the 1991 Academy of American Poets Landon Translation Award, is a wonderfully accessible Iliad that preserves every nuance of Homer's genius.
Fagles Translation Of The Odyssey
This gave me the opportunity to participate in a project featuring two great and important works, Homers Iliad and Odyssey, and to further support the revival of Greek History and the Classics.
-Susan Sarandon, Narrator of Synopses and Introductions
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Retells the events of the war between Greece and the city of Troy, focusing on Achilles quarrel with Agamemnon.