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Robert Fagles (/ ˈ f eɪ ɡ əl z /; [1] September 11, 1933 – March 26, 2008) [2] [3] was an American translator, poet, and academic. He was best known for his many translations of ancient Greek and Roman classics , especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer .
Not all translators translated both the Iliad and Odyssey; in addition to the complete translations listed here, numerous partial translations, ranging from several lines to complete books, have appeared in a variety of publications. The "original" text cited below is that of "the Oxford Homer". [1]
Lucia Graves – translator of Zafón and daughter of Robert Graves Edith Grossman – translator of Miguel de Cervantes , Luis de Góngora , Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez , Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa , Mayra Montero , Álvaro Mutis , Antonio Muñoz Molina and many other major Latin American and Spanish writers
This is the oldest existing manuscript of Homer's Iliad. It is regarded as the best text of the Iliad. (Biblioteca Marciana in Venice as Codex Marcianus Graecus 454, now 822). The first edition of the Iliad, editio princeps, was edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles and published by Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas in Florence in 1489. [47]
In 2020, she was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support her work translating Homer's Iliad. [8] In September 2023, an English translation by Wilson of Homer's Iliad was published by W. W. Norton & Company. [2] Wilson includes an introduction, as well as maps, family trees, a glossary, and text notes.
Details from the krater's obverse have been used as a book cover illustration. The Penguin Classics deluxe edition of Robert Fagles' English translation of the Iliad employs a close-up of Thanatos for its front cover, and a close-up of Sarpedon for its back cover. [10]
Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...
A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.