{"product_id":"the-odyssey-a-new-translation-by-peter-green-9780520303362","title":"The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Homer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Inside Flap\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a triumph, a worthy successor to Peter Green's outstanding translation of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIliad. \u003c\/i\u003eThe style is flexible, sometimes colloquial, and often touching the heights, while being always immensely accessible to a modern reader. No version known to me is better at conveying the feeling as well as the sense of the original, and it takes a poet as well as a scholar to do it so well.\"--Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Clear, concise, and poetic. Literally an epic achievement. Peter Green has done it again.\"--Eric H. Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology and the Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at George Washington University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Peter Green's translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Taken as a whole, this is the best line-for-line translation of the poem I know.\"--\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Peter Green's particular merit lies in achieving a clarity and fluidity that carries the reader forward. A notable achievement.\"--\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"[Green] gets the interpretation right without interrupting the forward motion that is always Homer's aim--and this is one of the great virtues of Green's translation as a whole: its limber fluency.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45117651812503,"sku":"9780520303362","price":1400.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780520303362.webp?v=1767900844","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-odyssey-a-new-translation-by-peter-green-9780520303362","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}