The Odyssey

af Homer

With his new Odyssey, bestselling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a major new work, a translation to stand with Penguin Classics' famous translations by E.V. Rieu (1946) and Robert Fagles (1996). Mendelsohn sets aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, focusing instead on reproducing the epic's formal qualities-meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance-to bring the great story to life in all its archaic grandeur. In this meticulous line-for-l... (Læs mere)