The Odyssey
Author: Homer
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights of Troy.So begins Robert Fagles’ magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Times Review of Books hails as “a distinguished achievement.”If the Iliad is the world’s greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is liter….Read More
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