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The Odyssey

199,00 lei

Categorii: Necatalogate, Neclasificat

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2025

Editura: Penguin Books

Tip copertă: Hardcover

Nr Pag: 560

Traducatori: Daniel Mendelsohn

ISBN: 9780241733585

Dimensiuni: l: 16.2cm | H: 24.2cm | 3.6cm | 943g

The Odyssey

199,00 lei

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This superb translation... feels like the original. -- Richard P. Martin, Stanford University

With his Odyssey, bestselling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike-a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles.

Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic's formal qualities - meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance - and in so doing restores to Homer's masterwork its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer's verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.

The result is the richest, most precise, and most musical Odyssey in English, one that fully conveys its oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight and powerful themes that make Homer's work resonate some twenty-eight centuries after its composition. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Mendelsohn's Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent, endlessly enjoyable masterpiece.