The Iliad and The Odyssey (Fagles translation). Homer

The Iliad and The Odyssey (Fagles translation)


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The Iliad and The Odyssey (Fagles translation) Homer
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Lawrence's prose, translation of The Odyssey. I found myself reading the Odyssey as a gripping narrative of a This is a reversal of his stance in the Iliad, when he spoke of his desire for a short life and a glorious death. Over two weeks, I listen to the 13 hours of Odysseus's journey home, and now I'm about half way through the 22 hours of the rage of Achilles. I started this first reading of the Iliad assuming I knew ”the story”. The events of The Odyssey are supposed to occur twenty years after the events of The Iliad. I did manage to get through a few pages of the introduction to the Fagles translation of the Odyssey though. €�That is nothing, nothing beside your agony”. One final note, I'm not one that huge on poetry, and the Fagles translation of The Odyssey is definitely in that format. Yes, I will absolutely be reading the Odyssey, but not right now — I started on Proust, which will be part of my study program this year, and it's way too demanding to read at the same time as Homer. The Iliad (Homer, translation Robert Fagles). My edition of Penguin Classics Odyssey was revised by E.V. Posted by Charlotte under A Literary Education · [3] Comments. The more I read The Aeneid, the more I appreciate it. There are other equally good translations: Robert Fitzgerald's The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid are stunning. Given that criteria, I like Fagles' translation of The Iliad best of the half-dozen I've read, and have to call a draw between Fitzgerald's verse, and T.E. I'm not sure I'd ever read The Odyssey from start to finish before: Robert Fagles' translation sings, and made the reading much more enjoyable than it might've been if I'd stuck to one of the older versions available for free on the web! Rieu's son in more contemporary English, as he said his father's translation was slightly archaic, so presumably the Penguin Iliad has been similarly revised. Did you read it after the Iliad?





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