Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, . He taught at Yale University for many years.
Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, . Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Fagles Odyssey was on Selected Shorts once, and for a long time after I insisted that there was no other worthwhile contemporary translation of Homer. I swore by it. Lombardo's translation is pretty common in colleges because of the price and the slangy presentation.
1) Robert Fagles' 1990 free verse translation from Penguin is particularly readable (and the introductory information by Bernard Knox is invaluable). Perhaps due to its having been somewhat over-hyped, academicians now seem less enthralled by it than they once were, some on the grounds that Fagles does not always strictly adhere to Homer - but usually that claim is made when comparing Fagles' to more literal translations, ones that are more scholarly but much less readable.
Robert Fagles, notes by Bernard Knox, The three Theban plays . Robert Fagles, intro.
Robert Fagles, notes by Bernard Knox, The three Theban plays (Viking Press, 1982), ISBN 978-0-670-69805-9. Homer, tr. Bernard Knox, The Iliad (Penguin Classics, 1991), ISBN 978-0-14-044592-3. Bernard Knox, The Odyssey (Penguin Classics, 1997), ISBN 978-0-14-026886-7. Virgil, tr. Bernard Knox, The Aeneid (Viking, 2006), ISBN 978-0-670-03803-9. Moses I. Finley, intro.
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Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of The Iliad is. .
Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of The Iliad is gripping and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life.
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This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.
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