About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100147712556

ISBN-139780147712554

eBay Product ID (ePID)950346

Product Key Features

Book TitleIliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Number of Pages1264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1999

TopicLiterary, Ancient & Classical

GenrePoetry, Fiction

AuthorHomer

Book SeriesPenguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height3.5 in

Item Weight53.3 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Notes byKnox, Bernard

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Number of Volumes2 vols.

Volume NumberSet

Dewey Decimal883.1

Grade ToUP

SynopsisA Penguin Classics deluxe boxed set of Robert Fagles' translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey . Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox., Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox. about The Odyssey, Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.