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The Essential Odyssey
Murnaghan Sheila
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Description for The Essential Odyssey
An abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey", this book offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 336.
This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Sheila Murnaghan's Introduction, a shortened version of her essay for the unabridged edition, is ideal for readers new to this remarkable tale of the homecoming of Odysseus.
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9780872209008
SKU
V9780872209008
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Ref
99-1
About Murnaghan Sheila
Stanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas. His previous translations include Homer's Iliad (1997, Hackett) and Odyssey (2000, Hackett), Hesiod's Works & Days and Theogony (1993, Hackett), and Sappho, Poems and Fragments (2002, Hackett), a PEN Center USA 2003 Literary Award Finalist. Sheila Murnaghan is Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
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