The Odyssey

by Homer, S. H. Butcher, and Andrew Lang

Robert Fagles (Translator) and Bernard Knox (Notes)

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Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation—available at last in our black-spine classics line

The inspiration for the major motion picture The Return, starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche

A Penguin Classic


The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and...Read more
  • ISBN10 0143039954
  • ISBN13 9780143039952
  • Publish Date 31 October 2006 (first published 1 January 1919)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics