{"product_id":"the-odyssey-by-homer-and-robert-fagles","title":"The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fagles","description":"\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns\u003cbr\u003edriven time and again off course, once he had plundered\u003cbr\u003ethe hallowed heights of Troy.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the world's greatest war epic, then the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRenowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Fagles, winner of the PEN\/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Perk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46432682344597,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/1769\/0261\/files\/perk-book-8911520170133-standard.jpg?v=1792632287","url":"https:\/\/theperkcards.com\/products\/the-odyssey-by-homer-and-robert-fagles","provider":"The Perk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}