Homer’s Odyssey, now in paperback

[University of Chicago Press]

Read in time for this summer’s blockbuster film

BROWSE BY SUBJECT  |  BROWSE BY SERIES The Odyssey Homer Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Daniel Mendelsohn The most accurate and poetic translation of the world’s greatest epic—soon to be a film by Academy Award winner Christopher Nolan! 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 masterwork its archaic grandeur. Mendelsohn’s expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s dense verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original. The result is the richest, most ample, most precise, and most musical Odyssey in English, conveying the beauty of its poetry, the excitement of its hero’s adventures, and the profundity of its insights. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Daniel Mendelsohn’s Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative version of this magnificent and enduringly influential masterpiece. “This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet.”—Edith Hall, The Telegraph Get 40% print and audio off when you order from our website! Use the code ODYSSEY40 at checkout until 7/05/2026 BUY THIS BOOK LISTEN TO AN AUDIO EXCERPT Read by Daniel Mendelsohn Be the first to know Get the latest updates on new releases, special offers, and media highlights when you subscribe to our email lists! SIGN UP HERE Manage your preferences | Opt Out using TrueRemove™ Got this as a forward? Sign up to receive our future emails. View this email online. 1427 E. 60th Street | Chicago, IL 60637 US This email was sent to italo...@gmail.com. To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.