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The Iliad and The Odyssey (Fagles translation) Homer
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Cause of death, prostate cancer. Denis O'Hare's Odyssey With “An Iliad”. Robert Fagles made famous translations into English of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid, but no one would refer to him as an English-language "interpreter" of these works. Arma virumque cano…Robert Fagles, who unleashed what some of us consider the supremely Howardian gifts of intensity and immediacy on The Iliad (1990), The Odyssey (1996), and The Aeneid (2006), died this week. The actor Script first: Now in previews at New York Theatre Workshop, the one-man show is an adaptation of Robert Fagles' translation of Homer's Iliad. Robert Fagles' translation of “The Aeneid” is a worthy successor to his excellent translations of “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” Most of what I could say about these three works has been said many, many times. Q: I was brought up with Robert Fagles's 1990 translation, whose vision has been compared to visceral films by directors like Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone. Achilles-florathexplora.jpg Robert Fagles, the New York Times reports, has died at home in Princeton, N.J., at 74. Q: Are you already at work on The Odyssey? I've been scouring the web for people's opinions on the best translations of the greatest epics: Homer's Odyssey, Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Dante's Divina Commedia.