
The Odyssey of Homer
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Description
In this new verse translation, Allen Mandelbaum--celebrated poet and translator of Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy --realizes the power and beauty of the original Greek verse and demonstrates why the epic tale of The Odyssey has captured the human imagination for nearly three thousand years.
Praise For The Odyssey of Homer…
"With real poetic power...his book is one no lover of living poetry should miss."--The New York Times Book Review
Bantam Classics, 9780553213997, 560pp.
Publication Date: September 1, 1991
About the Author
Allen Mandelbaum was born in 1926 and died in 2011. His translations of Homer, Dante, Virgil, Quasimodo, and Ungaretti were all published to great acclaim. His rendering of The Aeneid won the National Book Award. He was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.