Poet and Homeric scholar Barry B. Powell offers a major new translation of this enduring epic poem.

Chronicles the exploits and adventures of the warrior Odysseus as he struggles to return home to Ithaca and his beloved wife, Penelope, after the fall of Troy, in a free verse translation from a leading Homeric scholar.

Autorentext
Barry B. Powell is Halls-Bascomb Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His translation of The Iliad (2013) was also published by Oxford University Press.

Klappentext

Poet and Homeric scholar Barry B. Powell offers a major new translation of this enduring epic poem.

Zusammenfassung
Poet and Homeric scholar Barry B. Powell offers a major new translation of this enduring epic poem.

Inhalt

• CONTENTS

• Foreword, by Ian Morris

• Introduction

• The Odyssey

• Notes