The Odyssey
by Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn · 2025
ISBN 9780226604428
With this edition of Homer’s *Odyssey*, the celebrated author, critic, and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn brings the great epic to vividly poetic new life. Widely known for his essays on classical literature and culture in *The New Yorker* and many other publications, Mendelsohn gives us a line-for-line rendering of *The Odyssey* that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its source. Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, he artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and in so doing restores to Homer’s…
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