THE ODYSSEY of HOMER english translation by PETER GREEN Hardcover

Description: This is a beautiful hardcover copy of the translation into english by PETER GREEN of HOMER's epic THE ODYSSEY. Both the book and its dust jacket are in excellent undamaged "Like New" condition. Any "shadows" in my photos are reflections from the shiny dust jacket. The book appears to be unread. From a smoke free home. Please see all of my photos for condition. Please see my other listings for more translations of The Odyssey. I will combined shipping costs for multiple lots. Reviews: "Comparisons to [Emily] Wilson's recent translation are inevitable. . . . Both Wilson and Green capture the spirit of the Odyssey, but word-for-word, Green also captures a feel for the Homeric language, an experience closer to the original." ― Library Journal. "Green's intelligent translation is . . . a superb choice." ― The Weekly Standard. "Green brings to the poem the rhetorical directness and historical expertise which worked so well in his translation of The Iliad. Speeches in his version are vigorous and direct. " ― London Review of Books. “The kind of absorption offered by Green’s translation seems particularly relevant to the reading of a poem from an alien culture and period. It contributes to the opening of the imagination that is surely one of the main pleasures of reading such a work. . . . I recommend this translation not only for its weighty introduction and notes but above all for the sensitivity of its expression.” ― Manchester Review. “This is a triumph, a worthy successor to Peter Green’s outstanding translation of The Iliad. The style is flexible, sometimes colloquial, and often touching the heights, while being always immensely accessible to a modern reader. No version known to me is better at conveying the feeling as well as the sense of the original, and it takes a poet as well as a scholar to do it so well.”—Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University. “Taken as a whole, this is the best line-for-line translation of the poem I know.”—London Review of Books. “[Green] gets the interpretation right without interrupting the forward motion that is always Homer’s aim—and this is one of the great virtues of Green’s translation as a whole: its limber fluency.”—New York Review of Books.

Price: 10 USD

Location: New York, New York

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