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Garry Wills in The New Yorker calls Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, “the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English.”

 

THE ODYSSEY
Homer
Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox
Odysseus’ perilous ten-year voyage from Troy to his home in Ithaca is recounted
in a stunning new verse translation which “restores the original joys of the
performing bard,” (Paul Gray, Time).
deluxe Penguin paperback ISBN 0-14-026886-3

 

THE ODYSSEY is also available on audiocassette from Penguin Audiobooks (unabridged, read by Ian McKellen) ISBN 0-14-086430-X

 

THE ILIAD
Homer
Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox
Fagles combines his talents as poet and scholar in this elegant translation of the
stirring story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles.
“Astonishing . . . this should now become the standard translation for a new
generation.”—Peter Levi Penguin Classics ISBN 0-14-044592-7
deluxe Penguin paperback ISBN 0-14-027536-3

 

THE ILIAD is also available on audiocassette from Penguin Highbridge Audio (abridged, read by Derek Jacobi) ISBN 0-453-00774-0

 

THE ORESTEIA
(Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides)
Aeschylus
Introduction and Notes with W. B. Stanford
The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, the Oresteia takes
on new depth and power in Fagles’ acclaimed translation.
“Conveys more vividly and powerfully than any of the ten competitors I have
consulted the eternal power of this masterpiece . . . a triumph.”
—Bernard Levin Penguin Classics ISBN 0-14-044333-9

 

THE THREE THEBAN PLAYS
(Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus)
Sophocles
Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox
Fagles’ lucid translation captures the majesty of Sophocles’ masterwork.
“I know of no better modern English version.”
—Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Oxford University Penguin Classics ISBN 0-14-044425-4