The Odyssey

Homer

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Daniel Mendelsohn's rendering of Homer's text is both highly readable and faithful to the original metre. .Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic's formal qualities - meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance - and in so doing restores to Homer's master work its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer's verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.

Author(s): Homer,
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 23/04/2026
Pagination: 576 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published By: Penguin Classics
Book Classification: Ancient Greek & Roman legends|Ancient Greek religion & mythology|Epic|Fiction in translation|Adventure fiction
Dimensions: 233 x 154 x 33
Weight: 866
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241733592

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