The Odyssey | Homer, Daniel Mendelsohn - translator

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/al-1966/Title: The Odyssey Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2 Author: Homer, Daniel Mendelsohn - translator Narrator: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: mp3 Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins Release date: 04-24-25 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: 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 masterwork 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.