The Iliad and The Odyssey.

HOMER] TRANSLATED BY ROBERT FAGLES; INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY BERNARD KNOX,.

Item Number: 2658

New York: Viking, 1990, 1996.

First editions of the translation done Robert Fagles. Octavo, 2 volumes. The Iliad is signed by Robert Fagles and The Odyssey is inscribed by Robert Fagles.

"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Times Review of Books hails as "a distinguished achievement." If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once the timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, 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.