Description
Homer’s Odyssey is the enduring story of Odysseus and his long voyage home from the Trojan War, a journey of shipwrecks, monsters, enchantments, divine intervention, and the struggle to return to Ithaca and his faithful wife, Penelope.
This edition presents the celebrated eighteenth-century English verse translation associated with Alexander Pope. Written in heroic couplets and shaped by the characteristic music, grandeur, and formal elegance of English Neoclassical poetry, Pope’s Odyssey became a landmark in the history of Homer’s reception in English.
Samuel Johnson famously wrote of Pope’s Homer that “his version may be said to have tuned the English tongue.”
Presented in an elegant 6 × 9 inch edition, this volume pairs Pope’s distinctive poetic rendering with a restrained, classically inspired design, making it suitable both for reading and for the bookshelf.
