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title: "The Odyssey Hardcover – November 7, 2017"
brand: "homeremily wilson"
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# The Odyssey Hardcover – November 7, 2017

**Brand:** homeremily wilson
**Price:** 1.90 OMR
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Odyssey Hardcover – November 7, 2017 by homeremily wilson
- **How much does it cost?** 1.90 OMR with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful and readable
*by R***R on September 6, 2025*

This modern translation of a great epic pulsates with tension to its bitter bloody end, keeping the reader enthralled. The translation from ancient Greek strips all verbosity and in economical verses moves the story along swiftly, vividly bringing to life the story of Odysseus and the Bronze Age coastal world he lived in. It limns a portrait of Odysseus as a man determined to get home to his beloved wife and kingdom using only his wits, shrewdness, courage and resourcefulness. The last few chapters that culminate in a horrendous bloodbath feature an equally strong, courageous and shrewd Penelope and his son Telemachus.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Story Comes to Life in this Translator’s Hands
*by R***H on September 6, 2025*

I enjoyed reading this carefully crafted translation. It introduction in long, but adds much to understanding the story for those who are interested in more details. Or simply jump right to the epic!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A wonder to read
*by S***M on October 18, 2023*

This is the fourth and best translation of the Odyssey that I have read. The ones in high school and college were turgid academic poems, stiff and formal. They were written as if the Odyssey was a poetry reading in a classical studies faculty lounge.Fagles was famous for his more relaxed, colloquial style. But even Fagles focused on telling the text rather than on who it was told to. His translation, though clearer, is still burdened by academic pretensions and prolixities.Wilson, notably the only woman, has done two remarkable things. She imagined the audience that the bards would be speaking to. Ordinary citizens, tired from work, came to relax and hear a good story well told with sly asides, a wry touch, side eyed sexual innuendos, and even bits of whimsy. I sensed in this translation, as in no other, that Wilson knew the audience who Homer was playing to. Thus she brightened her translation with the dancing reflections of how he played his audience. This is fresh approach.The second thing that she does is render the women as they were in their time, individual humans, contained by the sexist distribution of wealth and power. This translation strips off the encrustations of the sexual judgements of the 19th and 20th century translations. It lets the women breath as humans or as goddesses. It is humane.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Odyssey
- The Iliad
- The Aeneid

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