'The best translation of The Odyssey yet' Telegraph
'Fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive' Lee Child
NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
With his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike - a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles.
Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic's formal qualities - meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance - and in so doing restores to Homer's master work its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer's verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.
The result is the richest, most precise, and most musical Odyssey in English, one that fully conveys its oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight and powerful themes that make Homer's work resonate some twenty-eight centuries after its composition. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Mendelsohn's Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent, endlessly enjoyable masterpiece.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2026
| ISBN: | 9780241733592 |
| Publication date: | 23rd April 2026 |
| Author: | Homer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 576 pages |
| Primary Genre | Classic fiction: general and literary |
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'The best translation of The Odyssey yet' Telegraph'Fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive' Lee ChildNOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLANWith his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike - a translation to stand with those of E. V.
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The Odyssey was written by Homer and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Odyssey has 576 pages
£13.49, reduced from £14.99. In Stock.
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