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Die durch einen choliambischen Prolog eingeleiteten Hexametersatiren des Persius vereinen den traditionellen Gesellschaftsbezug der Gattung mit dem ideellen Anspruch philosophischer Ethik zu einer ebenso individuellen wie fruchtbaren Synthese. Die Neuausgabe von Walter Kiel, welche die letzte Bearbeitung von W. Clausen (Oxford 1959) ersetzt, unternimmt es erstmals, den Zeugniswert der einzelnen Codices auf stemmatischer Grundlage zu bestimmen; dabei zeigt sich, dass gerade dem codex Pithoeanus und der recensio Sabiniana als traditionellen Eckpfeilern des Persiustextes...

The hardcover publication of the Odyssey received glowing reviews: The New York Times praised "Mitchell's fresh, elegant diction and the care he lavishes on meter, which] brought me closer to the transfigurative experience Keats describes on reading Chapman's Homer"; Booklist, in a starred review, said that...

One of the two major ancient Greek epics, Homer s "Odyssey," has been a classic of Western Literature for centuries. This new translation into spare, elegant blank verse is certain to attract the same praise and admiration as Herbert Jordan s translation of Homer s "Iliad."

In keeping with the style of his" Iliad, " Jordan renders the" Odyssey" line-for-line in iambic pentameter, a pleasing five-beat meter as used by Shakespeare and by his contemporary George Chapman, the first great translator of Homer into English verse. Jordan deftly pilots Homer s dactyls and extended metaphors,...

'Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. Many were the men whose lands he saw and came to know their thinking: many too the miseries at sea which he suffered in his heart, as he sought to win his own life and the safe return of his companions.'

Recounting the epic journey home of Odysseus from the Trojan War, The Odyssey - alongside its sister poem The Iliad - stands as the well-spring of Western Civilisation and culture, an inspiration to poets, writers and thinkers for thousands...