The Iliad and The Odyssey Boxed Set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Homer

Bernard M. W. Knox (Introduction), Robert Fagles (Translator), and Bernard Knox (Notes)

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Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.


about The Odyssey

  • ISBN10 0147712556
  • ISBN13 9780147712554
  • Publish Date 1 November 1999
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country AU
  • Imprint Penguin Random House Australia