The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid Box Set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Softcover

Homer; Virgil

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9780147505606: The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid Box Set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Synopsis

A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles’s award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature—The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid

One of the preeminent translators of our time, Robert Fagles’s interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon. The Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid are collected here for the first time in a specially designed gift box. Each volume contains a superb introduction by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.

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About the Author

Robert Fagles was Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His many translations include Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus’s Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer’s Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), and Homer’s Odyssey. Robert Fagles passed away in 2008.

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