A Complete and unabridged edition, that contains all 37 tragedies, comedies, and histories, plus the sonnets.  A compact edition (some 200 pages less) of the 1986 collection for which the original documents were re-examined and edited according to up-to-date research.  These plays and other writings are an important part of everyone’s birth rite.  They cover the gamut of human emotions and the ways in which man reacts in his world.  It is well worth reading again and again. A must for every household.
 
 

THE  ODYSSEY
 by Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction)

Robert Fagles's translation is a jaw-droppingly beautiful rendering of Homer's Odyssey, the most accessible and enthralling epic of classical Greece. Fagles captures the rapid and direct language of the original Greek, while telling the story of Odysseus in lyrics that ring with a clear, energetic voice. The story itself has never seemed more dynamic, the action more compelling, nor the descriptions so brilliant in detail. It is often said that every age demands its own translation of the classics. Fagles's work is a triumph because he has not merely provided a contemporary version of Homer's classic poem, but has located the right language for the timeless character of this great tale.
 
 

THE ILLIAD 
by Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox

This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy.
 
 

 

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