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The Odyssey by Homer
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Manufacturer: Penguin Audio
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The Odyssey by Homer Description
Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 883.01
EAN: 9780143058243
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 014305824X
Label: Penguin Audio
Manufacturer: Penguin Audio
Number Of Items: 11
Book Pages: 1
Publication Date: 2005-10-20
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Studio: Penguin Audio
Dewey Decimal Number: 883.01
EAN: 9780143058243
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 014305824X
Label: Penguin Audio
Manufacturer: Penguin Audio
Number Of Items: 11
Book Pages: 1
Publication Date: 2005-10-20
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Studio: Penguin Audio
Editorial Review of The Odyssey by Homer
NOW AVAILABLE - Digitally remastered, and on CD for the first time
Translated by Robert Fagles, with an introduction by Bernard Knox
Read by Sir Ian McKellen
Translated by Robert Fagles, with an introduction by Bernard Knox
Read by Sir Ian McKellen
Customer Reviews of The Odyssey by Homer
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Outstanding Translation and Great Reading
Review: Really liked this, the reading was outstanding and great translation by Robert Fagles. My son really enjoyed listening to it on a long road trip after plus it added to his understanding while he was reading it for English Class. I highly recommend this product.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Fundemental Literture in the Form it Was Meant
Review: For thousands of years this story has been told and retold.
The reason this story is still being told and still being heard is because it is so exciting and so very compelling.
It never grows old.
I have read and enjoyed this story from a leather bound book, but it is best heard spoken from a human voice. Ian McKellen is qualified as a modern day bard.
Unlike most movies and books of today, once will not be enough.
Those who listen to it will not be disappointed.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Utterly superb
Review: I'll not waste any time of yours with long and deserving praise for this telling of an ancient story, other than to say that should another day pass where you have stolen from yourself the opportunity to listen to this master storyteller lead you through a story written by a master, then only the Gods can forgive you.
Sir Ian Mckellan's performance is measured and beautiful, and there is no shame in a tear falling at the meeting of father and son for the emotion that comes through this practiced orator. I can say with a fair amount of confidence that the bards of old must have sounded like this - masters of their craft and able to bring the imaginations of their audience to life.
Not a moment longer - a treat awaits you...
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "I long to be homeward bound" Simon and Garfunkle,
Review: The Trojan War is over and one of our hero kings is lost. His son (Telemachus) travels to find any information about his father's fait. His wife (Penelope) must cunningly hold off suitors that are eating them out of house and home.
If he ever makes it home Odysseus will have to detect those servants loyal from those who are not. One absent king against rows of suitors; how will he give them their just deserts? We look to Bright Eyed Pallas Athena to help prophecy come true.
Interestingly all the tales of monsters and gods on the sea voyage was told by Odysseus. Notice that no on else survives to tell the tale. So we have to rely on Odysseus' word.
Many movies took sections of The Odyssey, and expanded them to make interesting stories those selves.
Not just the story but the way in which it is told will keep you up late at night reading.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Gandalf reads the Odyssey...what's not to like?
Review: I thought that this is perhaps the best audio book I have ever listened to, rivaled only by John Cleese's reading of C. S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters. Ian McKellon, whom most know primarily through his role as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, reads with the same epic sounding voice that he employed in the Lord of the Rings (as oppossed to less epic sounding voice inflection he employed in Xmen). Somehow his voice just sounds as ancient and mythical as the Odyssey itself. I cannot imagine a better reader for this book. I wish he had done the Iliad as well.
As for the translation itself, I must disagree with those who claim that it is the best. It is, I grant you, better than the thoroughly modernized versions like W. H. D. Rouse's, but I think it is (very) slightly too modernized. Phrases like shilly-shallying or other modern phrases simply do not belong in ancient texts like the Odyssey. That said, they did keep that type of language to a minimum, and the only better translation I have come across is Richard Lattimore's. For the most part this translation keeps the epic feel that the Odyssey should have, and Ian McKellen's voice only adds to this. I highly recommend this version. It is one of the few audio books I think is worth a second listen.
Overall grade: A+
Review Summary: Outstanding Translation and Great Reading
Review: Really liked this, the reading was outstanding and great translation by Robert Fagles. My son really enjoyed listening to it on a long road trip after plus it added to his understanding while he was reading it for English Class. I highly recommend this product.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Fundemental Literture in the Form it Was Meant
Review: For thousands of years this story has been told and retold.
The reason this story is still being told and still being heard is because it is so exciting and so very compelling.
It never grows old.
I have read and enjoyed this story from a leather bound book, but it is best heard spoken from a human voice. Ian McKellen is qualified as a modern day bard.
Unlike most movies and books of today, once will not be enough.
Those who listen to it will not be disappointed.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Utterly superb
Review: I'll not waste any time of yours with long and deserving praise for this telling of an ancient story, other than to say that should another day pass where you have stolen from yourself the opportunity to listen to this master storyteller lead you through a story written by a master, then only the Gods can forgive you.
Sir Ian Mckellan's performance is measured and beautiful, and there is no shame in a tear falling at the meeting of father and son for the emotion that comes through this practiced orator. I can say with a fair amount of confidence that the bards of old must have sounded like this - masters of their craft and able to bring the imaginations of their audience to life.
Not a moment longer - a treat awaits you...
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "I long to be homeward bound" Simon and Garfunkle,
Review: The Trojan War is over and one of our hero kings is lost. His son (Telemachus) travels to find any information about his father's fait. His wife (Penelope) must cunningly hold off suitors that are eating them out of house and home.
If he ever makes it home Odysseus will have to detect those servants loyal from those who are not. One absent king against rows of suitors; how will he give them their just deserts? We look to Bright Eyed Pallas Athena to help prophecy come true.
Interestingly all the tales of monsters and gods on the sea voyage was told by Odysseus. Notice that no on else survives to tell the tale. So we have to rely on Odysseus' word.
Many movies took sections of The Odyssey, and expanded them to make interesting stories those selves.
Not just the story but the way in which it is told will keep you up late at night reading.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Gandalf reads the Odyssey...what's not to like?
Review: I thought that this is perhaps the best audio book I have ever listened to, rivaled only by John Cleese's reading of C. S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters. Ian McKellon, whom most know primarily through his role as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, reads with the same epic sounding voice that he employed in the Lord of the Rings (as oppossed to less epic sounding voice inflection he employed in Xmen). Somehow his voice just sounds as ancient and mythical as the Odyssey itself. I cannot imagine a better reader for this book. I wish he had done the Iliad as well.
As for the translation itself, I must disagree with those who claim that it is the best. It is, I grant you, better than the thoroughly modernized versions like W. H. D. Rouse's, but I think it is (very) slightly too modernized. Phrases like shilly-shallying or other modern phrases simply do not belong in ancient texts like the Odyssey. That said, they did keep that type of language to a minimum, and the only better translation I have come across is Richard Lattimore's. For the most part this translation keeps the epic feel that the Odyssey should have, and Ian McKellen's voice only adds to this. I highly recommend this version. It is one of the few audio books I think is worth a second listen.
Overall grade: A+