The Odyssey - Softcover

Homer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977626997 ISBN 13: 9780977626991

Publisher: Richer Resources Publications, 2006

Synopsis

This translation was created to privide an accurate text of the Odyssey in a modern English poetic form. It was designed, first and foremost, for people who are reading Homer's Odyssey for the first time. The book is accompanied by a complete glossary, maps and other study aids intended to help ensure that one's intial venture into the world of the Odyssey is a fruitful one. Composed between 800 and 70 B.C. The Odyssey is the story of Odysseus' long voyage home from the Trojan War and the adventures which befall him.

About this title

About the Author:

Ian Johnston was born in Valparaiso, Chile and raised in Canada and England. He attended McGill University in Montreal, the University of Bristol and the University of Toronto. He worked for many years as a college and university-college instructor in British Columbia teaching English, Classics and Liberal Studies. He is the author of the book, The Ironies of War: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad. He is now retired and living in Namaimo, British Columbia.

Review:

"Ian Johnston has pulled it off: at last we have an Odyssey in English which is as natural, direct, and straightforward as the original Greek but which loses nothing but which loses nothing of Homer's music. A model translation, ideal for students and lovers of poetry alike - this is an Odyssey which sings." --- Professor Jack Mitchell, Department of Classics, College of the Holy Cross

"To render an ancient Greek text with its richly nuanced meanings and musical, rhythmic cadences in clear, accesssible contempory language, without losing the effect of the original, is an admirable achievement exemplified by Ian Johnston's translation of Homer's Odyssey. From the opening invocation of the goddess of poetry, to the hero's arduous adventures and finally to his homecoming, Johnston brings the dactylic rhythms, vivid imagery, elaborate similes, colorful characters, sheer adventure, and exquisite artistry of Homer's text alive for contemporary students." - --Daniel White, Professor of Philosophy, Honors College, Florida Atlantic University

"To render an ancient Greek text with its richly nuanced meanings and musical, rhythmic cadences in clear, accesssible contempory language, without losing the effect of the original, is an admirable achievement exemplified by Ian Johnston's translation of Homer's Odyssey. From the opening invocation of the goddess of poetry, to the hero's arduous adventures and finally to his homecoming, Johnston brings the dactylic rhythms, vivid imagery, elaborate similes, colorful characters, sheer adventure, and exquisite artistry of Homer's text alive for contemporary students." - --Daniel White, Professor of Philosophy, Honors College, Florida Atlantic University

"To render an ancient Greek text with its richly nuanced meanings and musical, rhythmic cadences in clear, accesssible contempory language, without losing the effect of the original, is an admirable achievement exemplified by Ian Johnston's translation of Homer's Odyssey. From the opening invocation of the goddess of poetry, to the hero's arduous adventures and finally to his homecoming, Johnston brings the dactylic rhythms, vivid imagery, elaborate similes, colorful characters, sheer adventure, and exquisite artistry of Homer's text alive for contemporary students." --- Daniel White, Professor of Philosophy, Honors College, Florida Atlantic University

About this edition

• Publisher: Richer Resources Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0977626997
• ISBN 13: 9780977626991
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 500