The Odyssey
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2004]
Format: Book
Description: xlviii, 418 pages ; 25 cm.
"Poet and translator Edward McCrorie now opens new territory in this rendition, which captures the spare, powerful tone of Homer's epic while engaging contemporary readers with its brisk pace, idiomatic language, and lively characterization. McCrorie closely reproduces the Greek metrical patterns and employs a diction and syntax that reflects the plain, at times stark, quality of Homer's lines rather than later English poetic styles. Avoiding both the stiffness of word-for-word literalism and the exaggeration and distortion of free adaptation, this translation evokes the ancient sound and sense of the poem. McCrorie's is truly an Odyssey for the twenty-first century."
Series: Johns Hopkins new translations from antiquity.
Contents:
Trouble at home -- A gathering and a parting -- In the Great Hall of Nestor -- With Menelaos and Helen -- A raft on the high seas -- Laundry friends -- The warmest welcome -- Songs, challenges, dances, and gifts -- A battle, the Lotos, and a savage's cave -- Mad winds, laistrugonians, and an enchantress -- The land of the dead -- Evil song, a deadly strait, and forbidden herds -- A strange arrival home -- The house of the Swineherd -- Son and father converging -- Father and son reunited -- Unknown in his own house -- Fights in the Great Hall -- Memory and dream in the palace -- Dawn of the death-day -- The stringing of the bow -- Revenge in the Great Hall -- Husband and wife at last -- Last tensions and peace.
Subjects:
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Poetry.
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English.
Epic poetry, Greek.
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Poetry.
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English.
Epic poetry, Greek.
ISBN:
0801868548
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Classical Hom | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Poetry Hom | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-418).