Description: Further DetailsTitle: The OdysseyCondition: NewISBN-10: 0393655067EAN: 9780393655063ISBN: 9780393655063Publisher: WW Norton & CoFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/22/2020Description: This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson’s authoritative translation of Homer’s masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes and book-by-book summaries.Four maps, created especially for this translation.Contextual materials including sources and analogues by Homer, Sappho, Pindar and others. Also included are carefully chosen passages from (mainly) ancient texts that provide insight into The Odyssey and its reception by Plato, Aristotle, Ovid, Pseudo-Longinus, Lucian, Apollodorus, Heraclitus, Porphyry, Proclus, Hyginus, Dante Alighieri, Alfred Lord Tennyson, C. P. Cavafy, Derek Walcott and Margaret Atwood.Nine critical essays addressing key topics—composition; representation of religion and the gods; class and slavery; gender; colonisation and the meaning of home; trickery, intelligence and lying; and more— essential to the study of The Odyssey. Essays by Robert Fowler, Laurel Fulkerson, Barbara Graziosi, Laura M. Slatkin, Sheila Murnaghan, Patrice Rankine, Helene P. Foley, Egbert J. Bakker and Lillian Eileen Doherty are included.A glossary and a list of suggested further readings. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 236mmItem Length: 142mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 393gTranslator: Emily WilsonContributor: Emily Wilson (Translated by)Genre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Norton Critical EditionsAuthor: HomerSubtitle: A Norton Critical EditionRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Odyssey
Title: The Odyssey
ISBN-10: 0393655067
EAN: 9780393655063
ISBN: 9780393655063
Release Date: 09/22/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Emily Wilson
Contributor: Emily Wilson (Translated by)
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Subtitle: A Norton Critical Edition
Book Title: Odyssey (New Translation) , Norton Critical Edition
Number of Pages: 512 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Topic: Ancient & Classical, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Emily Wilson
Book Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
