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The Odyssey

(Hardback)

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Odyssey

Contributors:

By (Author) Homer

ISBN:

9781857150940

Publisher:

Everyman

Imprint:

Everyman's Library

Publication Date:

2nd December 1992

UK Publication Date:

8th October 1992

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

883.01

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

552

Dimensions:

Width 137mm, Height 212mm, Spine 30mm

Weight:

587g

Description

Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has an economy and soar of a poet'. Introduced by Seamus Heaney

Author Bio

Homer Homer (Author) Homer is a much-debated figure traditionally considered to have composed the two great oral poems The Odyssey and The Iliad in eighth or seventh-century-BC Greece

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