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Genre/Form: | Translations Translations into English |
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Named Person: | Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character); Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Homerus; Herbert Jordan; E Christian Kopff |
ISBN: | 9780806144122 0806144122 |
OCLC Number: | 892103697 |
Description: | XXXV, 406 pagina's : tekeningen ; 23 cm. |
Series Title: | Oklahoma series in classical culture, 49. |
Responsibility: | Homer ; translated [from the Greek] by Herbert Jordan ; introduction by E. Christian Kopff. |
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Abstract:
One of the two major ancient Greek epics, Homer's Odyssey, has been a classic of Western Literature for centuries. This new translation into spare, elegant blank verse is certain to attract the same praise and admiration as Herbert Jordan's translation of Homer's Iliad.
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A remarkably fresh and clear translation. As deceptively simple as an Attic frieze, it is at once true to its ancient original and inviting to readers today."" - Luc Sante, translator of Felix Feneon's Novels in Three Lines. Read more...
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