This luxurious hardback collector's edition brings together the classic prose translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, presented with striking gold cover embossing and illustrated page edges... Zobraziť viac
One of the great epics of Western literature, The Odyssey covers the events after the Trojan War as Odysseus travels home, encountering many strange monsters and creatures along the way. Featuring numerous figures of ancient Greek mythology, Homer's... Zobraziť viac
A magnificent, acclaimed new translation of the Odyssey by bestselling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn. With his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets... Zobraziť viac
Homer's epic tale of the warrior Odysseus's decades-long struggle to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War-simply and beautifully retold for kids, with all the drama intact. Young readers will thrill at Odysseus's adventures with the man-eating... Zobraziť viac
Homer's two epics of the ancient world, The Iliad & The Odyssey, tell stories as riveting today as when they were written between the eighth and ninth century B.C... Zobraziť viac
The story of Odysseus' perilous journey home after the fall of Troy relates allegorical tales of goddesses and sirens, capture and escape, and maneuvering between Scylla and Charybdis. After ten years of travel, Odysseus finally reaches Ithaca to find... Zobraziť viac
A stunning gift edition of the age-old tale of Odysseus and his journey... Zobraziť viac
The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - ship-wrecks, battles, monsters ... Zobraziť viac
Kurt Steinmanns vielgelobte Versübertragung der »Odyssee« verbindet in idealer Weise hohe Texttreue mit sprachlicher Eleganz. Mühelos gelingt es ihm, dem jahrtausendealten Menschheitsepos um die Abenteuer des listenreichen Odysseus und dessen Gefährten... Zobraziť viac
The next elegant edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, The Iliad and the Odyssey is unabridged and complete. The Iliad is the epic poem that tells the ten-year story of the siege of Troy by the Greeks... Zobraziť viac
From the renowned translator of Rilke, Tao Te Ching, and Gilgamesh, a vivid new translation of Western civilization’s foundational epic: The Iliad.Tolstoy called the Iliad a miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment.... Zobraziť viac
Odysseus has been away from Ithaca, the Greek city-state under his rule, for ten years while fighting in the Trojan War. After the fall of Troy, Odysseus begins the long journey home to his wife and son; however, his journey is plagued by misfortune... Zobraziť viac
The Iliad is one of the finest of all the great works that have been handed down to us from Classical Antiquity. Paris, a Trojan prince, having won Helen as his prize for judging a beauty contest between the goddesses Hera, Athena, ... Zobraziť viac
