The Odyssey (Translated into verse by Alexander Pope with an Introduction and notes by Theodore Alois Buckley) (Paperback)

from greeniezona

So I decided to make this my big classic read for Dewey's Readathon, which means I read this in more or less a single sitting. The advantage was not losing momentum/familiarity while taking weeks or months to finish this. The disadvantage was getting. little antsy. Not a big price to pay. This w...

from Chris.Wolak

I've loved The Odyssey since the first time I read it in school. If you've never read it or its been a while since you have, this is the translation to read.

from jnwelch

Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey is my third; I read Robert Fagles' and Stanley Lombardo's before this. You can't go wrong with any of them - Fagles' is lyrical but modern, Lombardo's is admirably plain-speaking and fast-paced, and Wilson's is swift, smart and exciting. But Wilson's is m...

from atimco

It's good to meet classics in person after being distant acquaintances who know one another just well enough to nod in passing. Now I can shake The Odyssey heartily by the hand when I meet it in other stories, hail-well-met. And meet it in other stories I will, this revered grandfather of the rev...

from julie10reads

Just finished listening to the unabridged audiobook of The Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler (no relation to Gerard Butler) and read in rich, rotund diction by John Lee. Who is, of course, English. I don't remember when I first heard the story of Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca; seems as if I...