The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer

The Odyssey

A landmark new translation of Homer's most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn. In...
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Author: Homer
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The Odyssey by Homer

The Odyssey

$58.89
The Odyssey by Homer

The Odyssey

$58.89
Author: Homer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A landmark new translation of Homer's most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.

In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore's translation of Homer's The Iliad. For more than sixty years, it has served to introduce readers to the ancient Greek world of gods and heroes and has been one of the most popular and respected versions of the work. Yet through all those decades, Chicago never published a companion translation of the best-known epic in the Western canon, The Odyssey--until now.

With his new Odyssey, celebrated author, critic, classicist, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn has created a rendering worthy of Chicago's unparalleled reputation in classical literature. Widely known for his essays bringing classical literature and culture to mainstream audiences in the New Yorker and many other publications, Mendelsohn eschews the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, focusing instead on the epic's formal qualities--meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance--in order to bring it to life in all its archaic grandeur. In this line-for-line rendering, the long, six-beat line he uses, closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each Greek line without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.

The result is a magnificent feat of translation, one that conveys the poetics of the original while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight, and powerful themes that make Homer's work continue to resonate today. Supported by an extensive introduction, notes, and commentary, Mendelsohn's Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent and enduringly influential masterpiece.


Author: Homer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04/09/2025
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780226604428

About the Author
Memoirist, critic, translator, and frequent contributor of essays to The New Yorker and TheNew York Review of Books, where he is Editor-at-Large, Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of ten books, including the international bestsellers The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, an NPR and Kirkus Best Book of the Year. His other honors include the Prix Médicis in France and the Premio Malaparte, Italy's highest honor for foreign writers. In 2022 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France. He is currently the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College.
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