The Iliad

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Garry Wills in The New Yorker calls Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, “the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modem English.”

❮ THE ODYSSEY

Homer

Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox

Odysseus’ perilous ten-year voyage from Troy to his home in Ithaca is recounted in a stunning new verse translation which “restores the original joys of the performing bard,” (Paul Gray, Time).

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THE ODYSSEY is also available on audiocassette from Penguin Audiobooks

(unabridged, read by Ian McKellen) ISBN 0.14-086430-X

❮ THE ILIAD

Homer

Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox

Fagles combines his talents as poet and scholar in this elegant translation of the

stirring story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles.

“Astonishing ... this should now become the standard translation for a new

generation.”—Peter Levi Penguin Classics ISBN 0-14-044592-7

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THE ILIAD is also available on audiocassette from Penguin Highbridge Audio

(abridged, read by Derek Jacobi) ISBN 0-453-00774-0

❮ THE ORESTEIA

(Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides)

Aeschylus

Introduction and Notes with W. B. Stanford

The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, the Oresteia takes

on new depth and power in Fagles’ acclaimed translation.

“Conveys more vividly and powerfully than any of the ten competitors I have

consulted the eternal power of this masterpiece ... a triumph.”

—Bernard Levin Penguin Classics ISBN 0-14-044333-9

❮ THE THREE THEBAN PLAYS

(Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus)

Sophocles

Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox

Fagles’ lucid translation captures the majesty of Sophocles’ masterwork.

“I know of no better modern English version.”

—Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Oxford University Penguin Classics ISBN 0-14-044425-4