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By Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction), Bernard Knox (Noted by)

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Centuries old and still captivating readers, The Odyssey has become a genre in and of itself. Join Odysseus and Co. as they trick a cyclops, outsmart syrens and vie for survival against the ever-crafty creatures of Greek mythology. Told in beautiful verse, it’s time to grab an oar and help paddle this crew back home to Ithaca.

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, hailed as "the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English" (Garry Wills, The New Yorker)

Now a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan

A Penguin Classics Hardcover

"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." So begins Robert Fagles's magnificent t...