{"product_id":"the-odyssey-9780226849225","title":"The Odyssey","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe greatest of all epics, soon to be a film by Christopher Nolan!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This may be the best translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e yet.\"The Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA magnificent feat of translation, hailed by classicists and poets alike as a \"momentous achievement\" \"thrilling,\" \"rich and rhythmical,\" \"superb,\" \"mesmerizing,\" \"searingly faithful--yet absolutely original.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With this edition of Homer's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, the celebrated author, critic, and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn brings the great epic to vividly poetic new life. Widely known for his essays on classical literature and culture in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications, Mendelsohn gives us a line-for-line rendering of \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its source. Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, he artfully reproduces the epic's formal qualities--meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance--and in so doing restores to Homer's masterwork its archaic grandeur. Mendelsohn's expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer's dense verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The result is the richest, most ample, most precise, and most musical \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e in English, conveying the beauty of its poetry, the excitement of its hero's adventures, and the profundity of its insights. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Daniel Mendelsohn's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e is poised to become the authoritative version of this magnificent and enduringly influential masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Homer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.93h x 6.34w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226849225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMemoirist, critic, translator, and frequent contributor of essays to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, where he is Editor-at-Large, \u003cb\u003eDaniel Mendelsohn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten books, including the international bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and \u003ci\u003eAn Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic\u003c\/i\u003e, an NPR and \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Homer \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47858844598429,"sku":"9780226849225","price":37.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_dd091b26-1713-4b24-ab6c-af3789744e49.jpg?v=1776861784","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-odyssey-9780226849225","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}