{"product_id":"9780241733592-the-odyssey","title":"The Odyssey","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA New Translation by Daniel Mendelsohn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This may be the best translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey \u003c\/i\u003eyet' Edith Hall, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph, \u003c\/i\u003eBooks of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'History's greatest adventure story brought to us anew by America's greatest living classicist – this is fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive accomplishment' Lee Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith his \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike – a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSetting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities – meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance – and in so doing restores to Homer’s master work its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is the richest, most precise, and most musical \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e in English, one that fully conveys its oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight and powerful themes that make Homer’s work resonate some twenty-eight centuries after its composition. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Mendelsohn’s \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent, endlessly enjoyable masterpiece. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2026  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56409865486710,"sku":"9780241733592","price":18.62,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39869140.jpg?v=1770265654","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241733592-the-odyssey","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}