Overview :Trouble is brewing at the home of the hero Odysseus, who has spent years fighting in the Trojan Wars and is now captive of the beautiful nym... Read More
Overview :The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved mode... Read More
Overview :Gods and giants bestride these ancient tales, in which warrior queens and noble heroes battle with elves, dwarves, and fearsome monsters. Sp... Read More
Overview :By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter p... Read More
Overview :The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the P... Read More
Overview :When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unprete... Read More
Overview :From Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator whose Iliad was named one of The New Yorker's Favorite Books of 2011, comes a vivid new trans... Read More
Overview :Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems su... Read More
Overview :From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of... Read More
Overview :Chosen by author Elizabeth Gilbert as one of her ten favorite books, Daniel Ladinsky's extraordinary renderings of 250 unforgettable lyrical... Read More
Overview :The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonau... Read More
Overview :While the knights of King Arthur's Round Table are toasting the new year, a colossal stranger clad in green armor bursts in to deliver a for... Read More
Overview :Taking a literary journey through hell certainly sounds intriguing enough--and it is If you can understand it If you don't understand it, ... Read More
Overview :A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh... Read More
Overview :This volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry's life: a complete translation of Virgil's Aeneid. Ferry... Read More
Overview :The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only s... Read More
Overview :"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with... Read More
Overview :The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreatio... Read More
Overview :Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative litera... Read More