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"Come,
I will tell you of my voyage
home with
its many troubles."
The following books will introduce you to Odysseus, who said
these words in Homer's Odyssey (Lattimore trans.).
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characters. For related books, see Achilles.
- Homer. The
Odyssey of Homer (Robert Fagles, Trans.). New York:
Viking, 1990.
- Fagles translates not only the words but the
passion and ruggedness of the original in his
nimble, modern-sounding verse.
- Homer. The
Odyssey of Homer (Richmond Lattimore, Trans.). New
York: HarperPerennial, 1991.
- Try Lattimore for the fluid, otherworldly feel of
his poetry.
- Joyce, James. Ulysses.
Vintage, 1990.
- In this 1922 novel, recognized as the most
influential of the 20th century, Leopold Bloom
traces a path through Dublin in a single day that
parallels the trials encountered by Odysseus (or
Ulysses, to the Romans).
- Gilbert, Stuart. James
Joyce's Ulysses. Vintage, 1955.
- This classic of Joyce criticism provides the
chart (conceived in collaboration with the author
himself) linking the chapters with the events in
Homer's Odyssey. Essential introduction
to the mystified reader, yet illuminating for the
initiated as well.
- Knox, Bernard. The
Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on
the Classics. Norton, 1993.
- Elegant essays explaining, among other things,
why Homer's characters have survived so long.
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