The Odyssey: Introduction by Seamus Heany (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

Homer; Robert Fitzgerald

ISBN 10: 0679410473 / ISBN 13: 9780679410478

Published by Everyman's Library, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Odyssey: Introduction by Seamus Heany (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679410473
• ISBN 13: 9780679410478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture. The tale of Odysseus’s encounters with such obstacles as Calypso, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, and the lotus-eaters, and his dramatic return to Ithaca and his patient wife, Penelope, forms a prototype for all subsequent Western epics.

Robert Fitzgerald’s much-acclaimed translation, fully possessing as it does the body and spirit of the original, has helped to assure the continuing vitality of Europe’s most influential work of poetry. This edition includes twenty-five new line drawings by Barnaby Fitzgerald.

About the Author

Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.