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Title: The Iliad/the Odyssey by Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox ISBN: 0-14-771255-6 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $30.90 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.74 (23 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Dramatic and readable
Comment: Robert Fagles has done an excellent job at giving life to this ancient 'song', an epic of war. If you read this translation aloud (which you should certainly do!!), you will see how he has tried to give it the feel of an oral tradition, as if a bard were truly singing it. If you want to read this for the excitement of it, and really get a feel for the life behind it, read this translation. There are some boring parts, but that's just how the Iliad is, and it has nothing to do with Fagles's translation.
However, if you are in a reading group of some sort where you all have different translations, you will quickly realize upon comparison that Fagles's translation, especially compared to the Lattimore, leaves something to be desired in terms of its literal-ness (is that a word?). For studying the particulars, I would suggest the Lattimore translation instead, which makes more of an effort to be true to the original Greek, and is still interesting, but less readable and intense than the Fagles translation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Epic Style
Comment: What distinguishes the Fagle's Translation of Iliad from dozens of other great translations, is he put the sense of "epic" into its English version. I read and reread it, I can not get over how it achieves to give you a sense of solidity and all encompassing grandeur, in a scale that evokes heroism ,fate, courage, beauty, adventure in every line. I do not read Greek, but I can only imagine if an ancient bard who sang these lines in an amphitheater would want to achieve, what Fagle's translations does in reading all by yourself, alone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally Free to Love Homer in Print!
Comment: Most of what needs to be said about the Fagles' translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey has been covered in the previous reviews. I would simply add that, despite years of loving the tales of Homer, I was never able to read his works clean through until Fagles returned the fluid poetry of oration to the works.
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Title: The Aeneid by Virgil, ROBERT FITZGERALD ISBN: 0679729526 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Iliad (Cliffs Notes) by Bob Linn ISBN: 076458586X Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 05 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Odyssey (Cliffs Notes) by Stanley P. Baldwin ISBN: 0764585991 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 22 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad by Eva T. H. Brann ISBN: 0967967570 Publisher: Paul Dry Books Inc Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Iliad by Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox, Bernard MacGregor Walke Knox ISBN: 0140275363 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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