The Odyssey
By: Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox.
Contributors: Fagles, Robert.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 541
Subjects: Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English; Odysseus (Greek mythology) -- Poetry
Description: A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names -- Homeric geography : mainland Greece -- Homeric geography : the Peloponnese -- Homeric geography : the Aegean and Asia Minor -- Homer : the Odyssey. Book 1 : Athena inspires the prince -- Book 2 : Telemachus Sets Sail -- Book 3 : King Nestor remembers -- Book 4 : The king and queen of Sparta -- Book 5 : Odysseus - nymph and shipwreck -- Book 6 : The princess and the stranger -- Book 7 : Phaeada’s halls and gardens -- Book 8 : A day for songs and contests -- Book 9 : In the one-eyed giant’s cave -- Book 10 : The bewitching queen of Aeaea -- Book 11 : The kingdom of the dead -- Book 12 : The cattle of the sun -- Book 13 : Ithaca at last -- Book 14 : The loyal swineherd -- Book 15 : The prince sets sail for home -- Book 16 : Father and son -- Book 17 : Stranger at the gates -- Book 18 : The beggar-king of Ithaca -- Book 19 : Penelope and her guest -- Book 20 : Portents gather -- Book 21 : Odysseus strings his bow -- Book 22 : Slaughter in the hall -- Book 23 : The great rooted bed -- Book 24 : Peace -- Notes -- Translator’s postscript -- Genealogies -- Textual variants from the Oxford classical text -- Notes on the translation -- Suggestions for further reading -- Pronouncing glossary.