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1) The Odyssey
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reprint of the ancient Greek epic with an introduction giving the background to the times, viz. "The ceremonies of civilization do not mean much to us today; we tend to see them as insincere ... To Homer they are very beautiful and their violation a more serious matter than we can imagine."
"Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey...
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh. Terrified of mortality, he resolves to find the secret of eternal life.
3) Gilgamesh
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
A retelling, based on Assyrian clay tablets written in the seventh century BC, of the legendary exploits and adventures of the god king Gilgamesh, who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) around 2700 BC.
5) Gilgamesh: a new translation of the ancient epic with essays on the poem, its past, and its passion
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace." -- Amazon.
6) The Iliad
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The centuries old epic about the wrath of Achilles is rendered into modern English verse by a renowned translator and accompanied by an introduction that reassesses the identity of Homer. In Robert Fagles' beautifully rendered text, the Iliad overwhelms us afresh. The huge themes -- godlike, yet utterly human of savagery and calculation, of destiny defied, of triumph and grief -- compel our own humanity. Time after time, one pauses and re-reads before...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien. Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. "Hapless Kullervo," as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny. Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and tried three times to kill him when he was still...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this informative guide to the writings of Homer, the authors use elements of familiarity, such as rap and Lord of the Rings, to help the reader understand these ancient writings and how they deal with timeless questions that are still a part of our modern world.
Author
Publisher
Buccaneer Books
Pub. Date
©1986
Language
English
Description
"John Brown's Body is an epic American poem written by Stephen Vincent Benet. Its title references the radical abolitionist John Brown, who raided Harpers Ferry in Virginia in the fall of 1859. He was captured and hanged later that year. Benet's poem covers the history of the American Civil War. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929." --
14) Beowulf
Publisher
Cliffs Notes, Inc
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
"Including introduction, the manuscript, terms to remember, list of characters, genealogy, Beowulf: a synopsis, character analyses, critical essays, suggested essay topics, selected bibliography."
16) Beowulf
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In...
18) The Aeneid
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Virgil's epic poem describing the fall of Troy, in English blank verse by Robert Fitzgerald
19) Beowulf
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A retelling in prose of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Edgetheow, to save the people of Heorot hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.
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