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This excellent prose translation of Homer's epic poem of the 9th century BC recounts one of Western civilization's most glorious tales, a treasury of Greek folklore and myth that maintains an ageless appeal for modern readers. A cornerstone of Western literature, The Odyssey narrates the path of a fascinatingly complex hero through a world of wonders and danger-filled adventure.
After ten bloody years of fighting in the Trojan War, the intrepid Odysseus heads homeward, little imagining that it will take another ten years of desperate struggle to reclaim his kingdom and family....

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London.

magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans.

Chapman regarded the translation of this epic, and of Homer's Odyssey (also available in...

Die weltberühmte Geschichte einer Irrfahrt und Heimkehr

»Ich bin Odysseus, Laertes' Sohn, und es reicht meine Kunde von mir bis zum Himmel.« Vor fast 3000 Jahren sind die vierundzwanzig Gesänge Homers mit über 12.000 Versen entstanden, die von der sagenhaften und schier endlosen Heimfahrt des trojanischen Kriegshelden Odysseus erzählen. Die Odyssee, seine jahrelange Irrfahrt über das Mittelmeer, seine Abenteuer bei den Lotophagen, der Zauberin Kirke, dem Kyklopen Polyphem und im Totenreich bis hin zur Heimkehr nach Ithaka zu seiner Ehefrau Penelope, ist eine...

If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.

E. V. Rieu's translation has long been beloved and celebrated by scholars and readers...

This edition contains an introduction giving the necessary background and setting Book III in the context of the Iliad as a whole, the Greek text, explanatory notes and a vocabulary.