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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 was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer – the Iliad and the Odyssey – are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.

In The Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller’s tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact ‘Homer’ may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps ‘the hostage’ or ‘the blind one’. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years’ time.

Robert Fagles (1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus’s Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer’s Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer’s Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid.

Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles’ Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).

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.