The Odyssey of Homer - Hardcover

Homer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060125314 ISBN 13: 9780060125318

Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977

Synopsis

Accoring to the London Times, translater, Richmond Lattimer has come about as near as any man could to conveying, in English, the utterly alien movment and structure of Homer's poetry..."

About this title

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0060125314
• ISBN 13: 9780060125318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 374