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The Odyssey de Homer

The Odyssey: Bloomsbury Revelations

Autor Homer Traducere de Martin Hammond Prefață de Jasper Griffin
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mai 2014

Bazându-ne pe expertiza de trei decenii a lui Joe Sachs în cadrul programului „Great Books”, recomandăm această ediție a The Odyssey ca fiind un punct de intrare ideal în literatura antică. Observăm că această versiune nu este doar o simplă traducere, ci o recalibrare a textului homeric pentru cititorul contemporan, oferind o claritate modernă care nu sacrifică rigoarea originalului grecesc. Față de alte ediții academice, volumul de față, publicat în colecția Collins Classics, adoptă un stil „transparent și natural”, facilitând o imersiune rapidă în periplul de zece ani al lui Odiseu spre Ithaca.

Structura cărții este gândită strategic pentru a servi atât curiozității generale, cât și nevoilor curriculare. Credem că selecția capitolelor — de la întâlnirea cu ciclopul Polifem și vrăjitoarea Circe, până la coborârea în lumea umbrelor — reușește să păstreze tensiunea narativă intactă, oferind în același timp contextul necesar prin note de subsol și hărți detaliate. Cititorii familiarizați cu The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set în traducerea lui Robert Fagles vor aprecia aici abordarea lui Sachs, care pune accent pe „auzirea” epopeii așa cum ar fi fost receptată de auditoriul antic, oferind o perspectivă mai intimă asupra personajelor.

În contextul operei autorului, dacă Classic Starts®: The Iliad este o adaptare pentru tineri, iar Circe and the Cyclops izolează episoade specifice, acest volum oferă o sinteză echilibrată. Această ediție reușește să demonstreze de ce poemul rămâne o explorare fundamentală a condiției umane, fiind o resursă esențială pentru oricine dorește să confrunte imaginația și inima lui Homer fără barierele unui limbaj arhaic excesiv.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472532480
ISBN-10: 1472532481
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 138 x 212 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Revelations

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție pentru oricine dorește să descopere epopeea lui Homer într-un format accesibil, dar riguros. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a călătoriei lui Odiseu datorită traducerii clare a lui Joe Sachs și a selecțiilor care elimină redundanțele, păstrând esența narativă. Este un instrument de studiu excelent datorită notelor explicative și hărților incluse, fiind ideal pentru studenți sau cititori pasionați de beletristica clasică.

Despre autor

Homer a fost un poet epic din Grecia Antică, considerat autorul fundamental al literaturii occidentale prin lucrările sale, Iliada și Odiseea. Deși identitatea sa rămâne subiect de dezbatere, tradiția îl descrie ca pe un bard orb din Ionia. Epopeile sale au modelat cultura și educația greacă, fiind pilonii pe care s-a construit civilizația europeană. Traducătorul acestui volum, Joe Sachs, aduce o perspectivă academică solidă, fiind cunoscut pentru traducerile sale fidele din Aristotel și Platon, realizate pe parcursul carierei sale de profesor la St. John's College.

Descriere

'Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. Many were the men whose lands he saw and came to know their thinking: many too the miseries at sea which he suffered in his heart, as he sought to win his own life and the safe return of his companions.'

Recounting the epic journey home of Odysseus from the Trojan War, The Odyssey - alongside its sister poem The Iliad - stands as the well-spring of Western Civilisation and culture, an inspiration to poets, writers and thinkers for thousands of years since. This authoritative prose translation by Martin Hammond brings Homer's great poem of homecoming to life as Odysseus battles through such familiar dangers as the cave of the Cyclops, the call of the Sirens and his hostile reception back in his native land of Ithaca.

Cuprins

Preface
Introduction by Jasper Griffin Suggestions for further reading A note on the Greek text Book I: The Gods, Athene and Telemachos Book II: Telemachos and the Suitors Book III: Telemachos in Pylos Book IV: Telemachos in Sparta Book V: Odysseus and Kalypso Book VI: Nausikaa Book VII: Odysseus in Phaiacia Book VIII: Phaiacian Games and Song Book IX: The Cyclops Book X: Kirke Book XI: The Underworld Book XII: Skylla and Charybdis Book XIII: Return to Ithaka Book XIV: Odysseus and Eumaios Book XV: Telemachos Returns Book XVI: Odysseus and Telemachos Book XVII: Odysseus Comes to His House Book XVIII: Odysseus As Beggar Book XIX: Eurykleia Recognises Odysseus Book XX: Insults and Omens Book XXI: The Trial of the Bow Book XXII: The Suitors Killed Book XXIII: Odysseus and Penelope Book XXIV: The Underworld, Laertes, Peace Index

Recenzii

An excellent version... it may well prove the translation for this and the next generation.
Hammond's admirable translation..is remarkably successful in combining accuracy with a lively and highly readable style
Martin Hammond's new version is clearly a labour of love and a wonderful achievement as it has none [of the faults of other versions] and although it is in prose, if read aloud the prose transforms itself into poetry. It is as close to the Greek as it is possible to get and keeps all the formulaic patterns so that the music of the original shines out and rings in the ear...It is instilled with magic Mediterranean light...I have now read it seven times and find I get more from each re-reading
Hammond's precise and highly readable translation embraces not only the immediate human appeal of the Odyssey but also much of what is alien to modern literary culture: 'modes of speech, insistent narrative sequencing, the wealth of formulaic repetition' ... [It] offers Anglophone readers a faithful and direct experience of the style and manner of Homer's great poem.
Overall this is a highly professional production, to be seriously considered for textbook use in the classroom.
Hammond succeeds admirably in presenting a translation that is easy and enjoyable to read and faithful to Homer
This is a magnificent piece of work..I enjoyed reading [Hammond's] Odyssey enormously. It is more years than I care to think since I read the work from end to end. Hammond's translation moved me to do so within a day, and that is a tribute indeed. This is a first-class work which should give pleasure to both those who read Greek and those who do not - and deserves to attract many to read Homer for whom that is as yet a pleasure in store

Notă biografică

"Homer" designates the composer, or composers, to whom Greek antiquity attributed the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the name has carried a scholarly asterisk since at least the Alexandrian librarians of the third century BCE. The Odyssey nonetheless sits at the literal root of the Western narrative tradition: it is the oldest surviving example of the return-journey story, the model for epic simile and in-medias-res structure, and the ancestor of everything from the Aeneid to Ulysses. No classics collection, and few general fiction collections, can claim completeness without it. The "Homeric question" of authorship is not a footnote but part of the book's real interest. Twentieth-century scholars Milman Parry and Albert Lord, studying still-living oral epic singers in the Balkans, showed that the poem's repeated epithets and formulaic phrases are the fingerprints of oral composition and performance, not a single writer's literary style. The Odyssey is best understood not as one poet's invention but as the surviving crystallization of centuries of sung tradition - a genuinely collective inheritance rather than a solitary genius's product, which is itself a useful corrective to the great-man model that shapes so much of the rest of a classics shelf. Patrons return to the Odyssey because it works as a story before it works as homework: a resourceful, flawed hero improvising his way past monsters, temptations, and a house full of rivals, told with a narrative appetite still visible in modern adventure and heist fiction. It rewards both first encounters and rereading, and recent translations (including the first published English translation by a woman, Emily Wilson, in 2017) have kept it in active conversation rather than museum storage. This Clearview Editions large-print printing - 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, ragged-right, with no word-division - opens the oldest story in the Western tradition to older readers and those with low vision who are too often offered only abridged or simplified versions of texts this fundamental.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This excellent prose translation of Homer's epic poem of the 9th century BC recounts one of Western civilization's most glorious tales, a treasury of Greek folklore and myth that maintains an ageless appeal for modern readers. A cornerstone of Western literature, The Odyssey narrates the path of a fascinatingly complex hero through a world of wonders and danger-filled adventure.
After ten bloody years of fighting in the Trojan War, the intrepid Odysseus heads homeward, little imagining that it will take another ten years of desperate struggle to reclaim his kingdom and family. The wily hero circumvents the wrath of the sea god Poseidon and triumphs over an incredible array of obstacles, assisted by his patron goddess Athene and his own prodigious guile. From a literal descent into Hell to interrogate a dead prophet to a sojourn in the earthly paradise of the Lotus-eaters, the gripping narrative traverses the mythological world of ancient Greece to introduce an unforgettable cast of characters: one-eyed giants known as Cyclopses, the enchantress Circe, cannibals, sirens, the twin perils of Scylla and Charybdis, and a fantastic assortment of other creatures.
Remarkably modern in its skillful use of flashbacks and parallel line of action, Homer's monumental work is now available in this inexpensive, high-quality edition sure to be prized by students, teachers, and all who love the great myths and legends of the ancient world.
A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.