Like a Meteorite
James Davidson, 31 July 1997
Homer in English
edited by George Steiner.
Penguin, 355 pp., £9.99, April 1996,0 14 044621 4 Show More
edited by George Steiner.
Penguin, 355 pp., £9.99, April 1996,
Homer’s ‘Iliad’
translated by Stanley Lombardo.
Hackett, 584 pp., £6.95, May 1997,0 87220 352 2 Show More
translated by Stanley Lombardo.
Hackett, 584 pp., £6.95, May 1997,
Homer’s ‘Odyssey’
translated by Robert Fagles.
Viking, 541 pp., £25, April 1997,0 670 82162 4 Show More
translated by Robert Fagles.
Viking, 541 pp., £25, April 1997,
“... journey, threatened with bathos and pedestrianism on the one side and bombast on the other. Stanley Lombardo’s new Iliad has a photograph of a D-Day landing on the cover and makes a reckless dash for the idiomatic. It is generally a fine and enjoyable version, but its colloquialism sometimes lapses jarringly, occasionally amusingly, into ... ”
