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| Edition | 1st |
| Author(s) | Homer; translated by Daniel Mendelsohn |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0226849225 |
| Format | PDF — instant download |
| Language | English |
The Odyssey, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn, is hailed by classicists and poets alike as one of the most accurate and poetic renderings of the world's greatest epic. With this edition, celebrated author, critic, and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn brings Homer's epic to vividly poetic new life.
Key topics include a line-for-line rendering of the Odyssey that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its ancient source. Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic's formal qualities, including meter, enjambment, alliteration, and assonance, restoring to Homer's masterwork its archaic grandeur.
Mendelsohn's expansive six-beat line, closer to the original Greek than that of many recent translations, captures each of Homer's verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original. The result is a richly musical Odyssey in English that fully conveys the poem's oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure and profound human insight that make Homer's work resonate nearly three thousand years after its composition.
Author Daniel Mendelsohn is a memoirist, critic, and translator, and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, where he serves as Editor-at-Large. This translation is supported by an extensive introduction, notes, and commentary, making it a strong choice for university coursework and general readers seeking a definitive contemporary rendering of the Odyssey.
ISBN-13: 978-0226849225
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