BERNARD KNOX is Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. Pagles' most recent work is a translation of Homer's Odyssey, available from Penguin.

Fagles was one of the associate editors of Maynard Mack's Twickenham Edition of Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey, and, with George Steiner, edited Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays. His original poetry and his translations have appeared in many journals and reviews, as well as in his book of poems, I, Vincent: Poems from the Pictures of Van Gogh. His translations of Sophocles' Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus' Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award) and Homer's Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets, an award from The Translation Center of Columbia University, and the New Jersey Humanities Book Award) are published in Penguin Classics. He has translated the poems of Bacchylides. Fagles has been elected to the Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Marks' 19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. His birthdate is undocumented as well, though most modern scholars now place the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the late eighth or early seventh century B.C. While seven Greek cities claim the honor of being his birthplace, ancient tradition places him in Ionia, located in the eastern Aegean. The poem is a fundamental text in the Western canon and continues to be read in both Homeric Greek and translations around the world.BERNARD ILIAD The Greeks believed that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed by a single poet whom they named Homer. It takes Odysseus ten years to return to his native land of Ithaca after ten years of war during his 20-year absence, his son Telemachus and his wife Penelope must deal with a group of unruly suitors who have moved into Odysseus' home to compete for Penelope's hand in marriage, since most have assumed that Odysseus has died. The poem is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, and concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus in his long journey back to his native land Ithaca after the fall of Troy. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC. The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. Translated by Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) Download cover art Download CD case insert The Odyssey

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