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List Price: $12.95Amazon.com's Price: $11.65 You Save: $1.30 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 883.01
EAN: 9780872204843
ISBN: 0872204847
Label: Hackett Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 414
Publication Date: 2000-03
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 89888
Studio: Hackett Publishing Company
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. From the translation:
"And when the wine had begun to work on his mind,
I spoke these sweet words to him:
'Cyclops
You ask me my name, my glorious name,
And I will tell it to you. Remember now,
To give me the gift just as you promised.
Noman is my name. They call me Noman-
My mother, my father, and all my friends too.'
He answered from his pitiless heart:
'Noman I will eat last after his friends.
Friends first, him last. That's my gift to you.'"
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Stanley Lombardo has done it again!
His Odyssey is as fast-paced, lucid, poetic and punchy as his Iliad, but this time with a human feel, a warmth that the story calls for.
He brings real thoughts and real emotions to the characters...the like I've never seen! (I must have compared around 10 different translations).
...Lombardo has said that the "Iliad" is like the Sun blazing at its peak in mid-summer, whereas the "Odyssey" is like a setting Sun as fall sneaks ... Read More
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The Odyssey is mandatory reading for my freshman English classes and it has been quite difficult to teach. This literary work can be a very dry read for those who do not enjoy poetry reading (most freshmen). For this reason, I began a search for a translation that would make it easier for my students to understand. I read the previous reviews before buying it and I must say, I am glad that I did. Lombardo does an excellent job of making the translation understandable without dumbing down the text. ... Read More
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Do not buy this book. Instead, search Amazon and buy the cd, where the book is read aloud by the translator, Stanley Lombardo. Put the cd on your iPod, and listen to it whenever you walk the dog, or walk to work, or just take a walk. You will find yourself taking a walk in order to listen to the cd. The dog will not object. (But I actually bought both the book and the cd.)
I can practically guarantee that after you have heard Lombardo read his translation of the Odyssey, you will go right ... Read More
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Stanley Lombardo's translation has brought back the original "feel" of the ancient Greek epic. Classical and Koine Greek are both what you call "earthy" languages, a tone lost with many established and contemporary translations. Lombardo restores the drama and the linguistic edge that the epic poem possessed in its original tongue. The Lombardo translation is quickly becoming standard among university professors and students of classical literature.
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Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey, as well as his Iliad and Aeneid, receive much-deserved kudos as the most readable translations available. He writes with poetic and colloquial English that makes it easy for the lay person to understand.
Unfortunately, many of these same lay readers bash Lombardo's translations because they assume the personable nature of the writing makes it inaccurate. People expect a classic to have a certain formal diction to it, in the vein of Shakespeare and ... Read More
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