The Odyssey (Bloomsbury Revelations)
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (794 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1472532481 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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This authoritative prose translation by Martin Hammond brings Homer's great poem of homecoming to life as Odysseus battles through such familiar dangers as the cave of the Cyclops, the call of the Sirens and his hostile reception back in his native land of Ithaca.. 'Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. Many were the men whose lands he saw and came to know their thinking: many too the miseries at sea which he suffered in his heart, as he sought to win his own life and the safe return of his companions.' Recounting the epic journey home of Odysseus from the Trojan War, The Odyssey - alongside its sister poem The Iliad - stands as the well-spring of Western Civilisation and culture, an inspiration to poets, writers and thinkers for thousands of years since
It is as close to the Greek as it is possible to get and keeps all the formulaic patterns so that the music of the original shines out and rings in the earIt is instilled with magic Mediterranean lightI have now read it seven times and find I get more from each re-reading William Cookson, AGENDA Hammond's precise and highly readable translation embraces not only the immediate human appeal of the Odyssey but also much of what is alien to modern literary culture: 'modes of speech, insistent narrative sequencing, the wealth of formulaic repetition' It offers Anglophone readers a faithful and direct experience of the style and manner of Homer's
Nothing is known of his life. Homer is known only as the author of the The Iliad and The Odyssey, the two epic poems of the Trojan War and its aftermath that mark the birth of Western culture. Since 1990 he has been Headmaster of Tonbridge School, UK. Martin Hammond was Head of Classics at Eton College, UK and subsequently Master in College. He is t