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The standard translation into modern English of Homer's Odyssey. "The best translation there is of a great, perhaps the greatest, poet."New York Times Book Review
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About the Author:
Richmond Lattimore was born in 1906. He was considered one of the leading translators of Greek classical literature. He died in 1984
Review:
"The best...translator of Greek poetry into English is Richmond
Lattimore...This is the best Odyssey in modern English."
-- -- Gilbert Highet
"[Lattimore's] Odyssey is his masterpiece."
-- -- Walter Kaufmann
"In this Odyssey Professor Lattimore has achieved his chef d'oeuvre as a translator...[A] dazzling and well-nigh flawless performance...Here is a master in perfect control of his medium...A landmark in the history of modern translation...It would be a crime to underestimate the miraculous and self-effacing artistry with which Professor Lattimore has reanimated Homer for this generation, and perhaps for other generations to come." -- Times Literary Supplement (London)
"Lattimore's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the most eloquent, persuasive, and imaginative I have seen. It reads as if the poem had originally been written in English." -- Paul Engle
"The best...translator of Greek poetry into English is Richmond Lattimore...This is the best Odyssey in modern English." -- Gilbert Highet
"[Lattimore's] Odyssey is his masterpiece." -- Walter Kaufmann
"[Lattimore's] complete Homer is indeed a splendid achievement, and I shall be very far from being alone in regarding it...as the best translation there is of a great, perhaps the greatest, poet." -- Rex Warner, New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherAddison-Wesley
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0065023951
- ISBN 13 9780065023954
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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