Title:
The Odyssey / Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox.
ISBN:
9780670821624
9780140449112
9780143039952
9780140268867
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Publication Information:
New York : Viking, [1996]
©1996
Physical Description:
x, 541 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: The spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names -- Maps: Homeric geography : Mainland Greece ; Homeric geography : the Peloponnese ; Homeric geography : the Aegean and Asia Minor -- Inset: Troy and vicinity -- Homer: Odyssey. Athena inspires the prince -- Telemachus sets sail -- King Nestor remembers -- The king and queen of Sparta -- Odysseus--Nymph and shipwreck -- The princess and the stranger -- Phaeacia's halls and gardens -- A day for songs and contests -- In the one-eyed giant's cave -- The bewitching queen of Aeaea -- The kingdom of the dead -- The cattle of the sun -- Ithaca at last -- The loyal swineherd -- The prince sets sail for home -- Father and son -- Stranger at the gates -- The beggar-king of Ithaca -- Penelope and her guest -- Portents gather -- Odysseus strings his bow -- Slaughter in the hall -- The great rooted bed -- Peace.
Summary:
A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 10.3 24.0 5993.
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830L Lexile
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OCLC Number:
ocm34583995
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