Overview
A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles?s award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature ONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles?s interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon. The Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid are collected here for the first time in a specially designed gift box. Each volume contains a superb introduction by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.
Full Product Details
Author: Homer ,
Virgil ,
Robert Fagles ,
Bernard Knox
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 12.40cm
, Length: 22.00cm
Weight: 2.041kg
ISBN: 9780147505606
ISBN 10: 0147505607
Pages: 1760
Publication Date: 30 September 2009
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Robert Fagles is the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English. -Garry Wills, The New Yorker Mr. Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time and yet timeless. -Richard Jenkyns, The New York Times Book Review Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgil's drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of The Iliad and The Odyssey in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of The Aeneid . -J. M. Coetzee
Robert Fagles is the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English. <br> -Garry Wills, The New Yorker <br><br> Mr. Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time and yet timeless. <br>-Richard Jenkyns, The New York Times Book Review <br><br> Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgil's drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of The Iliad and The Odyssey in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of The Aeneid . <br> -J. M. Coetzee
"" Robert Fagles is the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English."" -Garry Wills, ""The New Yorker"" "" Mr. Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time and yet timeless."" -Richard Jenkyns, ""The New York Times Book Review"" "" Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgil's drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of ""The Iliad"" and ""The Odyssey"" in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of ""The Aeneid""."" -J. M. Coetzee
Author Information
Virgil, born in 70 B.C., is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid. He earned great favor by portraying Augustus as a descendant of the half-god, half-man Aeneas. Although Virgil swore on his deathbed that The Aeneid was incomplete and unworthy, it has been considered one of the greatest works of Western literature for more than two thousand years.
