Homer The Odyssey

A Prose Translation

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The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic about the challenges and hardships Odysseus faces in his rambling ten-year journey homeward after the Trojan War and in the days following his arrival on the island of Ithaka, his homeland. Depicting his own and others’ social displacement after the war, and describing his successive challenges against human, natural and supernatural adversaries, the epic dramatizes his problematic process of healing from the trauma of war and his slow, arduous attempt to recover a sense of personal identity among his people, his wife, his son, and others who have longed for his return. In depicting the struggles of Odysseus, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemakhos, as well as key minor characters such as the slaves Eurykleia and Eumaios, in response to their social displacement, The Odyssey offers us literature’s first full-length narrative focused on the everyday heroism of ordinary human beings in the face of implacable misfortune and adversity.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-02
Mått152 x 228 x 18 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity Press of America
ISBN9780761873686
ÖversättareUnderwood, Charles

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AcknowledgementsIntroductionBook I: Uninvited GuestsBook II: Disorder in the CourtBook III: The Old HorsemanBook IV: The Thread of FortuneBook V: The IslandBook VI: NausikaaBook VII: The PhaiakiansBook VIII: Telling MomentsBook IX: The Wandering EyeBook X: KirkeBook XI: ShadowsBook XII: HazardsBook XIII: IthakaBook XIV: The Keeper of PigsBook XV: Telemakhos ReturnsBook XVI: PlansBook XVII: Stranger in the HouseBook XVIII: Almost HomeBook XIX: Face to FaceBook XX: Hard WordsBook XXI: The ContestBook XXII: Slaughterhouse Book XXIII: Give and TakeBook XIV Ends and MeansAbout the Translator

I admire this translation greatly. It has real precision without being stilted, retains just enough formal diction while being flexible and idiomatic, and achieves a real (and rarely caught) conversational tone--the essence of Homeric muthos. There were also some moments when a choice of adjective (e.g. "raw" to translate stugeroisin at Od.11.81) sent me back to the text with some skepticism, but allowed me to return with a new appreciation for the possibilities of meaning inherent in the Greek. All in all, this is a powerful and fresh interpretation (all translations being "readings"). The introduction, meanwhile, from Underwood’s distinctive ethnographic standpoint, is a compelling testimony to the perennial power of the poem.