Robert Fitzgerald's is the best and best-loved modern translation of The Odyssey, and the only one admired in its own right as a great poem in English. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language reader in all its glory.
The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
15 november 1998
Macmillan
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Robert Fitzgerald's versions of the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Oedipus cycle of Sophocles (with Dudley Fitts) are also classics. At his death, in 1988, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard.
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Charles
Review: The Odyssey Fitzgerald did an absolutely amazing job in translating this. What a beautiful and enduring work. I doubt I'll ever be able to read the book in any other translation. I'm spoiled.
Todd Wright
Review: The Odyssey Great book, everybody knows most of the story but it was still very exciting. Due to my lack of knowledge of Greek customs I also needed to look up quite a few items in The Greek Myths by Robert Graves.
Lin Kudla
Review: The Odyssey I'm sorry I didn't read this one sooner. Aside from ridiculously Greek names, son of so-and-so being thrown around every stanza, I simply adored the didactic epic poem. Not a bad translation by Fitzgerald, either.
Abigail Ludwig
Review: The Odyssey I liked the Odyssey better than the Iliad, but I think it's because this is a different translator. It is a great story.
Susan
Review: The Odyssey Delightful. I was a little disappointed, reading the introduction, to find that Fitzgerald was far from strictly literal in his translation, that it is indeed idealistic to hope for exact translation AND lyric interpretation. But that's just me. A lovely tale.
jason901519
Good book Good book this is a great piece of literature....
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Charles
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Review: The Odyssey Fitzgerald did an absolutely amazing job in translating this. What a beautiful and enduring work. I doubt I'll ever be able to read the book in any other translation. I'm spoiled.
Todd Wright
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Review: The Odyssey Great book, everybody knows most of the story but it was still very exciting. Due to my lack of knowledge of Greek customs I also needed to look up quite a few items in The Greek Myths by Robert Graves.
Lin Kudla
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Review: The Odyssey I'm sorry I didn't read this one sooner. Aside from ridiculously Greek names, son of so-and-so being thrown around every stanza, I simply adored the didactic epic poem. Not a bad translation by Fitzgerald, either.
Abigail Ludwig
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Review: The Odyssey I liked the Odyssey better than the Iliad, but I think it's because this is a different translator. It is a great story.
Susan
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Review: The Odyssey Delightful. I was a little disappointed, reading the introduction, to find that Fitzgerald was far from strictly literal in his translation, that it is indeed idealistic to hope for exact translation AND lyric interpretation. But that's just me. A lovely tale.
jason901519
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Good book Good book this is a great piece of literature....
Margaret Mary
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Review: The Odyssey I haven't read this since high school, but it's even better than I remembered. Love this Fitzgerald translation!
Janine
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Review: The Odyssey This story was very interesting. I really enjoyed how the gods played an active role in the characters lives. It is full of adventure and is like the ultimate hero story. Talk about conquering all the ...
David Redden
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Review: The Odyssey I wasn't forced to read Homer in high school or college, so this was my first go at it. It was a little rough at first, because it seems like it was written for people who already knew the story. I ...
Rick
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Review: The Odyssey I really liked the part where Menelaus invites Telemachus to hang out while he and his pals get drunk, tell war stories, and have PTSD together. And then he randomly gives Telemachus a bunch of money ...
Brandi Donaldson
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Review: The Odyssey I really enjoyed reading this book. I enjoyed the beggining mostly, because this was where the reader could get the background details and the reasoning behind the decisions each character makes along ...
Dylan Bush
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Review: The Odyssey "The Odyssey", by Homer, has become a classic in the world of literature. This book tells the story of the life and adventures of the hero, Odysseus, as he makes his way back to Ithaca after the ...
Katie
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Review: The Odyssey "The Odyssey", by Homer, is a Greek mythology tale that revolves around the main character, Odysseus, as he returns home to his palace in Ithaca from the Trojan War. Odysseus is tested numerous times ...
Bianca Roberts
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Review: The Odyssey Homers epic poem The Odyssey is a traditional tale of journey, adventure, love, reunion, revenge , deception, and the power of the gods. The goddess Athena assists the main character Odysseus a ...
Chris Reel
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Review: The Odyssey Ten years after the Trojan War Odysseus the tactician left Troy and wound up on Calypso's island for seven years. After being trapped for all that time and fed up with his home sickness Odysseus ...
Lauren Gladstone
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Review: The Odyssey Odyssey The Odyssey out of many novels is the most intriguing novel written. It will capture any reader's attention whether the reader is interested in Greek mythology or not. The translated version ...
Nick Richards
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Review: The Odyssey Bought it. Read it. Lost it. Bought it again. Read it again. What a fascinating classic tale of Odysseus and his adventure home to Ithaca from the Trojan war. I couldn't put it down. It is one of my ...
Scott Gobeille
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Review: The Odyssey I've read this several times, its always good to refer to and typically read for the slaying of the suitors several chapters ahead relishing the build-up. I've read the chapter on the cyclops to my ...
Laura
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Review: The Odyssey I love the humor in The Odyssey. I read it aloud, alternately, with my son the year it was an assigned summer read for him. I knew he would not get through it on his own. We laughed out loud at the ...
Silvio Curtis
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Review: The Odyssey Both the Homeric epics are excitingly and poetically told stories, though how much of the poetry comes through depends on the translation. (I've only read two or three translations of each, so I can't ...
Scortia
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Review: The Odyssey While I prefer the Iliad to the Odyssey, the Odyssey still has a lot of merits. It's a beautiful adventure story. We get multiple stories from multiple perspectives expertly interwoven until Odysseus ...
Sharon
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Review: The Odyssey The Odyssey by Homer is about the long and arduous journey of Odysseus as he endeavors to return home after the Trojan War. He has not seen his son Telemachus or his faithful wife Penelope in twenty ...
Kaila
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Review: The Odyssey 1) Odysseus is a jerk to women everyone. 2) Chapters are called books. Just like The Iliad, there are 24 books in the Odyssey. An approximate division of story lines is: 4 books about Telemachos ...
Marks54
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Review: The Odyssey This is a new release of the Fitzgerald translation and iwas published in tandem with the Illian, which I read over the Christmas holidaysr. What can I say? It is the Odyssey. What is not to like? I ...
Ashley Nef
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Review: The Odyssey The Odyssey is in my top 5 favorite pieces of literature of all time. You shouldn't just wait for the chance to come along to read this work - you should run cheering to your nearest book store and ...
David
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Review: The Odyssey Homer's The Odyssey is so grounded in the foundation of world literature that it is largely beyond reproach, and likewise beyond praise. Homer's two epics, this and the Iliad, are two halves of the ...
Victoria
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Review: The Odyssey I really liked this book, but it took forever to read. I think that Robert Fitzgerald did a fantastic job translating it; it wasn't overly complicated to read, the story was actually very clear and ...
Adam
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Review: The Odyssey I've read a few versions of the Odyssey. This is a good translation. Sometimes Fitzgerald uses character names that are closer to the Greek ("Kyklops" instead of Cyclops, for instance), and this is ...
Chloe
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Review: The Odyssey I first read this book for Classical Mythology, one of my classes during my first semester of college. I liked it a lot when I first read it, largely because I had never really been exposed to epic ...
Jimmy
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Review: The Odyssey This was a much better read than I thought it would be. Once you get used to all the ritual BBQs and wine-drinking, the story is actually quite gripping. What is amazing to think of is that the entire ...
Melbourne on my mind
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Review: The Odyssey Well, I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. It wasn't what I thought it would be, namely the story of Odysseus' journey home from Troy. Instead, it was equal parts what happened while ...
Justin Evans
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Review: The Odyssey It's the Odyssey; you should probably read it. Fitzgerald's version is very readable, and not particularly scholarly, so it's ideal for actually reading. I doubt it's much use if you're looking for a ...
Jessica
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Review: The Odyssey I'm not sure how to review The Odyssey. It's... the Odyssey. I will say, it is a much easier read than I remember it being when I was forced to read it in high school. The Odyssey tells the epic story ...
Jenni
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Review: The Odyssey Not as painful as the Iliad -- seriously, screw you Achilles -- but still not a book I ever want to pick up again. This stuff just is not for me. Remember in The Iliad when Odysseus killed all those ...
Eve
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Review: The Odyssey I found The Odyssey to be generally engaging, and this particular translation to be very well done. This book provides a truly amazing and unique glimpse into the culture of the ancient Greeks that ...
Dana
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Review: The Odyssey Overall, I think this is a decent book. There were some passages that were a little hard to follow as to who was speaking and whom they were speaking to. Of course, there were a lot of names that were ...
Donna Green
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Review: The Odyssey In reading Robert Fitzgerald's' translations of The Odyssey I had a very hard time with comprehension. The words he uses, his terminology is excellent there is real beauty in his words to the point ...
Taylor
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Review: The Odyssey The Lattimore translation is marvelously close to the original, yes, but let's face it — it's prose (prose with unjustified right margins). Fitzgerald is correct, even when he takes liberties. And more importantly, his translation is genuinely poetic.
Daniel Roberts
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Review: The Odyssey There are few books that hold the title of a “classic” to the degree that The Odyssey does. Over two thousand years old, and this book still resonates. Reading a work like this more of a privilege ...
Elena
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Review: The Odyssey As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don't be afraid of them: you'll never find things like that ...
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