Odyssey: A Modern Translation of Homer's Classic Tale - Brossura

Eickhoff, Randy Lee

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312869010 ISBN 13: 9780312869014

Casa editrice: Forge, 2005

Riassunto

THE ODYSSEY, translated by a former soldier, award winning novelist and classics scholar. This translation encompasses the best of both worlds--a prose translation with the most dramatic sections rendered into verse.

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L'autore

Randy Lee Eickhoff holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Classics. He lives in El Paso, Texas where he works on novels, plays, poetry and translations in several languages. His translation of Ireland's national epic, the Ulster Cycle, is now a text used in schools in the United States and overseas. His novel And Not to Yield, based on the life of Wild Bill Hickok, was selected as the Best Novel of 2004 by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage. His nonfiction work on the Tigua Indians, Exiled, won the Southwest Book Award. He is also the author of Return to Ithaca, Then Came Christmas and The Quick and the Dead. He has been inducted into the Paso Del Norte Writers Hall of Fame, the local chapter of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. Eickhoff served with distinction in the early phases of the Vietnam War, and was awarded the Purple Heart, Silver Star and Bronze Star. He spends his time in El Paso, Ireland, and Italy, lecturing on Dante and The Ulster Cycle.

Product Description

"The Odyssey" is the original journey tale, a genre that has lasted three thousand years, and has had a lasting influence on on literature and art. The trials of Odysseus were first told by the great bard Homer. For ten long years the Greeks and Trojans have fought on the plains of Troy, and now Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, and the other victorious Greeks are ready to sail home. But after offending the sea god, Poseidon, Odysseus is hurled into years of wandering the seas, encountering monsters and sirens, raging storms and seductive idylls, before he is able to return to his wife, his son and his homeland.This masterpiece keeps its appeal not only because it reflects a glorious time of heroes and wonders, but because it is a work that still speaks to the lives we live today. Forge book is proud to present "The Odyssey" in Dr. Eickhoff's compelling and authoritative new translation.

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• Editore: Forge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312869010
• ISBN 13: 9780312869014
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 436