| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The Odyssey // Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. |
| Author: |
Homer. |
| other author: |
Fagles, Robert. |
| Published: |
London :Penguin, : 1997, c1996., |
| Description: |
541 p. :ill., maps ;22 cm. |
| Notes: |
Originally published: London : Viking, 1996. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction: Spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names -- Maps: Homeric geography : Mainland Greece -- Peloponnese -- Aegean and Asia Minor -- Inset: Troy and vicinity -- Homer: Odyssey : Athena inspires the prince -- Telemachus sets sail -- King Nestor remembers -- King and queen of Sparta -- Odysseus- Nymph and shipwreck -- Princess and the stranger -- Phaeacia's halls and gardens -- Day for songs and contests -- In the one-eyed giant's cave -- Bewitching queen of Aeaea -- Kingdom of the dead -- Cattle of the sun -- Ithaca at last -- Loyal swineherd -- Prince sets sail for home -- Father and son -- Stranger at the gates -- Beggar-king of Ithaca -- Penelope and her guest -- Portents gather -- Odysseus strings his bow -- Slaughter in the hall -- Great rooted bed -- Peace. |
| Subject: |
Epic poetry, Greek - Translations into English. - |
| ISBN: |
0140268863 |