{"product_id":"the-odyssey-paperback-4","title":"The Odyssey (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePRE-ORDER NOW! The estimated release date is 26 June 2026. Please note your complete order will only ship once the Pre-Order item becomes available.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'History's greatest adventure story brought to us anew by America's greatest living classicist―this is fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive accomplishment' Lee Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'This may be the best translation of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Odyssey \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eyet' Edith Hall, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTelegraph, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBooks of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA magnificent, acclaimed new translation of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e by bestselling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike – a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSetting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities – meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance – and in so doing restores to Homer’s master work its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is the richest, most precise, and most musical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in English, one that fully conveys its oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight and powerful themes that make Homer’s work resonate some twenty-eight centuries after its composition. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Mendelsohn’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent, endlessly enjoyable masterpiece.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Homer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142796918962,"sku":"9780241733592","price":356.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9780241733592.jpg?v=1777532430","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/the-odyssey-paperback-4","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}