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The Odyssey

Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey is a landmark publication in English-language literary history. It is the first complete English translation of The Odyssey by a woman, and upon publication it was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "a revelation," with The Guardian calling it "a new cultural landmark" .

The core feature of this translation is that Wilson strictly follows the original Greek text in iambic pentameter, with the same number of lines, resulting in a fast-paced, modern-idiom version that avoids archaic pretense. The New York Times review described it as "fresh, unpretentious, and lean," with language that "recaptures Homer's 'nimble gallop'

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No. Panggil

883.01 HOM t c1

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New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

582 pages, maps, 25 cm

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English

ISBN/ISSN

9781639212522

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883.01

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The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation, W. W. Norton & Company) has three main editions: the 2017 first edition hardcover (582 pages), the 2018 paperback reprint (592 pages), and the 2020 Norton Critical Edition (429 pages). The first edition hardcover's ISBN is 9780393089059, published on November 7, 2017, and this translation is the first complete English translation of The Odyssey by a female scholar, written in iambic pentameter with line counts matching the original Greek text, and was named one of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2018

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