Book description
Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy
for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been
blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the
hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront
him? And what new tests await him if he ever finally reaches his home
shore?
Homer is a much-debated figure traditionally considered to have
composed the two great oral poems The Odyssey and The
Iliad in eighth or seventh-century-BC Greece.
Robert Fitzgerald was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory
Emeritus at Harvard University. He was a member of the National
Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Chancellor of the Academy of
American Poets. He published four volumes of his own verse during his
lifetime. His translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad,
and of Virgil's Aeniad, won him many honours and are
universally acknowledged to be among the finest of their kind this
century. He died in 1985.
