Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.
Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds,
many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea,
fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home.
But he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove –
the recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all,
the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun
and the Sungod blotted out the day of their return. . . .
特洛伊戰爭結束後，伊薩卡國王奧德修斯踏上歸途，卻因觸怒海神波塞頓而一次次偏離航向。在獨眼巨人、海妖、女巫與致命風暴的阻撓下，原本短暫的航程化為十年漂泊；而他離去二十年之久的家園，也早已被覬覦王位的求婚者占據。
荷馬的《奧德賽》既是充滿神話與冒險的海上史詩，也是一段關於生存、身分與歸屬的漫長考驗。奧德修斯依靠的不只是戰士的力量，更是敏銳的心智與隨機應變的智慧。誘惑、失落與復仇交織其中，使這趟歸鄉之旅成為跨越時代、映照人生的永恆故事。
Robert Fagles 以鮮明有力的現代詩句，重現荷馬敘事的速度、節奏與口述魅力，讓這部古老史詩既適合朗讀，也值得反覆品味。本版另收錄古典學者 Bernard Knox 的導讀與注釋，以及地圖、族譜與發音指南，帶領當代讀者深入奧德修斯曲折多變的神話世界。
The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.
Two great epics of ancient Greek literature, the Iliad, a classic war story, and the Odyssey, the tale of everyman’s journey through life, were believed to have been written by a single poet whom the Greeks named Homer. Nothing is known of his life. While seven Greek cities claim the honor of being his birthplace, ancient tradition places him in Ionia, located in the eastern Aegean. His birthdate is undocumented as well, though most scholars now place the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the late eighth or early seventh century BC.
Robert Fagles is Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His previous translations include Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus’s Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer’s Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets) and Homer’s Odyssey.Bernard Knox is Director Emeritus of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.
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