The  <I>Odyssey</I>: The Odyssey (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity)
McCrorie's new translation can be recommended without reservation to the generations of students to whom it is bound to be assigned and to any reader who'd like to get as close to the original as is possible without reading the original Greek. It is refreshing, accurate, and direct.(Jay KenneyBloomsbury Review)Edward McCrorie's translation of the Odyssey into English hexameter has much to recommend it... I have developed an appreciation for the clarity and briskness of McCrorie's verse.(G.S. BoweBryn Mawr Classical Review)A lively and engaging version of Homer'sOdysseythat brilliantly blends pleasurable readability with fidelity to the original... McCrorie has simplified the choice of an English Odyssey even in a field of very skillful competitors (Lattimore, Fitzgerald, Mandelbaum, Fagles, Lombardo), providing the best available verse translation of the Odyssey for Greekless readers.(Choice)McCrorie has produced an epic with its own rhythms, idioms and developing pleasures.(Anglo-Hellenic Review)Bold new translation.(Emily AnhaltClassical Bulletin)This is a fine, fast-moving version of the liveliest epic of classical antiquity. With a bracing economy, accuracy, and poetic control, Edward McCrorie conveys the freshness and challenge of the original in clear, sensitive, and direct language. Instead of the uncertain solemnity of some previous translations or the free re-creation of others, McCrorie has managed a version that will have immediate appeal to this generation of students and general readers alike.(Keith Stanley, Duke University, author ofThe Shield of Homer)Edward McCrorie's translation of theOdysseyanswers the demands of movement and accuracy in a rendition of the poem. His verse line is brisk and efficient, often captures the rhythm and the sound of the Greek, and functions well as an English equivalent of the Greek hexameter. Unlike most translators, he wishes to preserve at least some of the sound of the Greek, and his rendition of the formulaglaukôpis Atheneasglow-eyed Atheneis inspired. He remains true to the formulae of Homeric verse, and several of his choices—such asrose-fingered daylightorwords had a feathery swiftness—delight. Homer, Zeus-like, would have nodded his approval.(William F. Wyatt, Jr., Brown University)