homer's iliad and odyssey the essential books

'The definitive English version of Homer for our time.' - Common Review His virtuoso performance in these audiobooks reflects years of experience before a wide variety of audiences - beautifully paced, shaped, intoned, and acted throughout.

The result provides cinematic and performance qualities to the time-honored poetry - sharp scene cuts, dynamic language, urgency of the characters (human and divine). Reading his own acclaimed (abridged) translations, Lombardo's insightful rendition takes advantage of the rhythms and other poetic resources of everyday American speech. The world can't hear Homer speak his own words, but Stanley Lombardo is the next best thing. More than 3,000 years after the fall of Troy, here at last is a rendition of the Homeric epic that everybody can understand and appreciate.

but the selections included are infinitely better and longer than what one normally gets in anthologies of Greek literature.'- Kostas Myrsiades, Westchester University 'Not only does one get an excellent translation of both Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. 'The definitive English version of Homer for our time.'- The Common Review This state-of-the-art compact disc recording provides high-quality access to some of the greatest works in world literature. Noted classicist Stanley Lombardo breathes new life into some of the most famous and beloved ancient works with this engaging and vibrant audio performance of carefully selected excerpts of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The classics are rapidly receding from public consciousness, and modern revisions of them, such as the film O Brother, Where Art Thou, are in genuine danger of never being linked to their original inspiration.

Homer's iliad and odyssey the essential books