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The Odyssey : A New Translation by Daniel MendelsohnAuthor: Homer Classical texts Published on 23 April 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 576 pages 155 x 234 x 32 858g 'History's greatest adventure story brought to us anew by America's greatest living classicistthis is fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive accomplishment' Lee Child'This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet' Edith Hall, Telegraph, Books of the YearSHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO
Author: Homer
Classical texts
Published on 23 April 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 576 pages
155 x 234 x 32 | 858g
'History's greatest adventure story brought to us anew by America's greatest living classicist—this is fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive accomplishment' Lee Child'This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet' Edith Hall, Telegraph, Books of the YearSHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2026 A magnificent, acclaimed new translation of the Odyssey by bestselling author and classicist Daniel MendelsohnWith his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike – a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles.
Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities – meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance – and in so doing restores to Homer’s master work its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.
The result is the richest, most precise, and most musical Odyssey in English, one that fully conveys its oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight and powerful themes that make Homer’s work resonate some twenty-eight centuries after its composition. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Mendelsohn’s Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent, endlessly enjoyable masterpiece.
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