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This book is a memorable achievement, and the long and excellent introduction by bernard knox is a further bonus, scholarly but also relaxed and compellingly readable. When robert fagles translation of the iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece. It was commonly thought that he lived on chios, an isl. This quality has led some scholars to conclude that homer wrote the odyssey at a later time of his life, when he showed less interest in struggles at arms and was more receptive to a storyline that focused on the fortunes and misadventures of a single man. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator robert fagles has captured the energy and poetry of homers original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an odyssey to. Download read online the iliadthe odyssey by homer book in epub or pdf.
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