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Title: Odyssey by Homer, Stanley Lombardo, Sheila Murnaghan ISBN: 0-87220-484-7 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co. Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliantly translated and beautifully written
Comment: Stanley Lombardo captured every great moment of The Odyssey, leaving nothing behind, and making it so easy to read! I had to buy this book for a literature class, and I didn't have the same version as everyone else, but I noticed it was even better than theirs and the professor said their version was easily readable. It's not exactly written in prose, but it reads like prose. I wanted to get the Iliad after reading this, to find out the previous book, and I had to get Lombardo's translation, or it just wouldn't be the same. Haven't read it yet, but The Odyssey is a wonderful story, and this version is so easy to read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Home sweet home
Comment: I became familiar with Stanley Lombardo's work after reading his translation of the Iliad, so when I saw that he also had a translation of the Odyssey available, I eagerly went out and bought a copy. As in his Iliad translation, one encounters the same trademark modern-day colloquial style that, depending on the type of person you are, you will either enjoy or hate. I happen to love it, and I also applaud the choice of cover design for the book, since it suggests not only the nature of the story, but of the translation as well.
Whereas Lombardo's Iliad was full of adrenaline and very energetic, I thought that his version of the Odyssey was definitely more calm and introspective, focusing on Odysseus' personal anguish and quest for retribution. It was easier for me to identify with the world of ordinary humans (and their feelings) described in the Odyssey, than with the world of godlike men and mindless warfare and violence described in the wide-ranging Iliad. For this and other reasons, I consider the Odyssey to be the superior work. As in his previous translation of the Iliad, Lombardo drops the use of dactylic hexameter in the present work and treats the use of similes and epithets in a special manner - all in an effort to minimize the problems encountered in translating from the original Greek to English.
It has already been suggested that Lombardo's translation would be an excellent starting point for both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and I wholeheartedly agree. His translations may not be the only versions you'll want to have on your bookshelf, but they would definitely be ones to have in your collection.
Rating: 5
Summary: A very good translation
Comment: This quarter, I decided to focus on Homer. I took two classes concentrating on him, one where we read the Greek text of the Odyssey, and the other where we read both the Iliad and the Odyssey. I was a little sceptic about the Lombardo translation to begin with, especially because I already owned the Lattimore translations. After reading Lombardo, though, I realize how great a translator he is compared to Lattimore. Lattimore gives a more direct translation, but his choice of words conveys the "classic" portion of Homer a bit too well. Lombardo, on the other had, uses colloquial speech when translating. Usually, that is not a great quality, but it seriously works with the Odyssey. Both Homeric epic poems are orally composed, and Lombardo's translation conveys the casualness of the words. The Odyssey shouldn't be considered an old archaic boring text, because it isn't... I feel that Lombardo is a great translator and should be used more in high school readings of Homer and for first time readers of these texts.
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Title: Iliad by Homer, Stanley Lombardo ISBN: 0872203522 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Aeneid by Virgil, ROBERT FITZGERALD ISBN: 0679729526 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) by Ovid, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney ISBN: 019283472X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason, John H. Marks ISBN: 0451627180 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: February, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Euripides: 10 Plays by Paul Roche, Euripides, Euripedes ISBN: 0451527003 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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