The Iliad and The Odyssey (Fagles translation). Homer

The Iliad and The Odyssey (Fagles translation)


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The Iliad (Homer, translation Robert Fagles). Posted by Charlotte under A Literary Education · [3] Comments. We're skipping the war bit (The Iliad) but with Cyclopes and Sirens we' re sure to be duly entertained. I started this first reading of the Iliad assuming I knew ”the story”. I found the Iliad shockingly human, from the characters' sulkiness to their blood on the dusty battlefield. €�That is nothing, nothing beside your agony”. Robert Fagles made famous translations into English of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid, but no one would refer to him as an English-language "interpreter" of these works. Well, here I am, back again, with Robert Fagles's translation of the Iliad. I discovered his translation of The Iliad over 15 years ago, when I was thinking of possibly writing a story that combined elements of biblical history and pagan myth; and I read it again a few years later, when I was doing research for a paper on changes in military I enjoyed Fagles' style very much, and I always meant to get around to reading his translation of The Odyssey, but I never did (though I have read the translations by Robert Fitzgerald and T.E. I've read the Odyssey but never this one. Yes, I will absolutely be reading the Odyssey, but not right now — I started on Proust, which will be part of my study program this year, and it's way too demanding to read at the same time as Homer. The Odyssey is classic tale of journey and adventure, a tale many of us haven't read since we were in grade school (if at all). Did you read it after the Iliad? I hope you'll join me for a readalong of The **My translation is by Robert Fitzgerald but the Robert Fagles version is supposed to be fantastic **Consider listening to the audiobook version!





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