书名：The Odyssey Of Homer荷马史诗奥德赛
作者：Homer
出版社名称：Bantam Classics

出版时间：1990

语种：英语
ISBN：9780553213997
商品尺寸：17.5 x 10.7 x 3.0cm
包装：平装
页数：560（以实物为准）

荷马史诗之一的The Odyssey《奥德赛》为西方文学的奠基之作，是除《伊利亚特》外现存非常古老的西方文学作品。没有读过《荷马史诗》的人，对西方文化的了解是欠缺的。

一般认为，《奥德赛》创作于公元前8世纪末，主要讲述了希腊英雄奥德修斯在希腊盟军攻克特洛伊后，在海上漂泊十载，历尽艰险，后来返乡的故事。十年的航海经历中，包含了许多古希腊神话故事，主人公奥德修斯的种种遭遇也为后世欧洲的诸多作家的创作提供了丰富的素材。

"A splendid achievement outstripping all  competitors."--Anthony A. Long, author of  Hellenistic Philosophy

"With real poetic power...his book is  one no lover of living poetry should  miss."--The New York Times Book Review 

Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired  writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus  survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops  and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song  and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his  most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous  suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal  wife, Penelope. Favorite of the gods, Odysseus  embodies the energy, intellect, and resourcefulness  that were of highest value to the ancients and that  remain ideals in out time.

In this new verse translation, Allen Mandelbaum--celebrated poet and translator of Virgil's  Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy --realizes the power and beauty of the original  Greek verse and demonstrates why the epic tale of The Odyssey has captured the human imagination for nearly three thousand years.

荷马（Homer，约公元前9世纪~前8世纪），相传为古希腊的游吟诗人，生于小亚细亚，创作了不朽史诗《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》，统称《荷马史诗》。关于荷马其人，学界目前没有确切证据证明荷马的存在，所以也有人认为他是传说中被构造出来的人物。而关于《荷马史诗》，大多数学者认为是当时经过几个世纪口头流传的诗作的结晶。荷马在口头诗歌的基础上旁征博引、推陈出新，用诗人的情怀及文字的魅力将特洛伊战争描绘得精彩绝伦。凭借杰出的艺术才能，他被但丁赞誉为“诗人之王”。

《荷马史诗》语言简练，情节生动，形象鲜明，结构严谨，是西方首部重要的文学作品，影响极为深远。荷马也被后人誉为与但丁、莎士比亚、歌德齐名的“世界四大诗人”之一。

Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems.