The Odyssey

The Odyssey is one of the world''s greatest and best-loved poems. It has survived for twenty-eight centuries, through upheavals that have wiped out most of what was written in the ancient world. Now Barry B. Powell, one of the twenty-first century''s leading Homeric scholars, has given us a powerful new translation. Powell''s translation renders the Homeric Greek with a simplicity and dignity reminiscent of the original. The text immediately engrosses students with its tight and balanced rhythms, while the incantatory repetitions evoke a continuous ""stream of sound"" that offers as good an im. 9780199925889 0199925887 0 BOOK Epic poetry NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-T24oAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Homer
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 21, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 488 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0199925887
• | ISBN-13: 9780199925889