{"product_id":"the-odyssey","title":"The Odyssey","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"purchase-item-detail-title-desktop\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"author-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"editor\"\u003eTranslated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Daniel Mendelsohn\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"editor\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"purchase-item-detail-summary\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collapse-truncated-wrapper truncated-faded truncated\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collapse-truncated collapse show\" id=\"example-collapse-truncated-1\" data-max-height=\"243\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collapse-truncated-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe greatest of all epics, soon to be a film by Christopher Nolan!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“This may be the best translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e yet.”—Edith Hall, \u003cem\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA magnificent feat of translation, hailed by classicists and poets alike as a “momentous achievement”: “thrilling,” “rich and rhythmical,” “superb,” “mesmerizing,” “searingly faithful—yet absolutely original.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith this edition of Homer’s \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, the celebrated author, critic, and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn brings the great epic to vividly poetic new life. Widely known for his essays on classical literature and culture in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and many other publications, Mendelsohn gives us a line-for-line rendering of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its source. Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, he artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur. Mendelsohn’s expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s dense verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is the richest, most ample, most precise, and most musical \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003ein English, conveying the beauty of its poetry, the excitement of its hero’s adventures, and the profundity of its insights. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Daniel Mendelsohn’s \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e is poised to become the authoritative version of this magnificent and enduringly influential masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Homer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48189601808606,"sku":"9780226849225","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/0F6515A6-0601-4874-9617-E14EC13318C5.jpg?v=1777686437","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/products\/the-odyssey","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}