A new Odyssey
“Now goddess, child of Zeus, / tell the old story for our modern times. / Find the beginning.”
Homer’s Odyssey, Joe Sachs’s translation
I’m not sure how I found my way to Joe Sachs’s translation of the Odyssey , a translation that seems to have met with widespread indifference. But two episodes in, I think I’ve found a new favorite to place alongside Robert Fitzgerald’s and Stanley Lombardo’s versions of the poem.
Edward Luttwak on Homer Inc
Edward Luttwak on the Iliad in Arabic, Chinese, and English.
Translations, mules, briars
Guy Davenport on Richmond Lattimore
Stanley Lombardo reads Homer
Link to a review of the Iliad and Odyssey on CDs