The Odyssey | Daniel Mendelsohn

Prepare for the highly-anticipated film adaptation of Homer's classic epic with this "magnificent feat of translation", hailed by classicists and poets alike as "searingly faithful—yet absolutely original.” With this edition of Homer’s Odyssey, 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 The New Yorker and many other publications, Mendelsohn gives us a line-for-line rendering of The Odyssey that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its source. Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s classic qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and the expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of many translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s dense verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.The result is the richest, most ample, most precise, and most musical Odyssey in English, conveying