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The Odyssey The Fitzgerald Translation

ISBN: 9780374525743 | 0374525749
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date: 11/5/1998

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
These 2 editions represent the many available of this epic poem about the wanderings of Ulysses on his way home from the Trojan War.
The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer'sOdysseyis the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, thisOdysseyhas sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. The Noonday Press is delighted to publish a new... MORE
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The Poem of Odysseusp. ix
Map of Homer's Worldp. lxxii
The Odyssey
A Goddess Intervenesp. 1
A Hero's Son Awakensp. 19
The Lord of the Western Approachesp. 35
The Red-haired King and His Ladyp. 53
Sweet Nymph and Open Seap. 81
The Princess at the Riverp. 99
Gardens and Firelightp. 111
The Songs of the Harperp. 125
New Coasts and Poseidon's Sonp. 145
The Grace of the Witchp. 165
A Gathering of Shadesp. 185
Sea Perils and Defeatp. 209
One More Strange Islandp. 229
Hospitality in the Forestp. 247
How They Came to Ithakap. 267
Father and Sonp. 289
The Beggar at the Manorp. 309
Blows and a Queen's Beautyp. 335
Recognitions and a Dreamp. 353
Signs and a Visionp. 375
The Test of the Bowp. 391
Death in the Great Hallp. 409
The Trunk of the Olive Treep. 429
Warriors, Farewellp. 445
A Note on the Textp. 465
Postscriptp. 467
Critical Writing on The Odyssey and Homeric Poetryp. 511
Notes and Glossaryp. 513
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Robert Fitzgerald's versions of the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Oedipus cycle of Sophocles (with Dudley Fitts) are also classics. At his death, in 1988, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard.


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