Robert Fitzgerald's versions of the Iliad, the Aeneid,
and the Oedipus cycle of Sophocles (with Dudley Fitts) are also
classics. At his death, in 1985, he was Boylston Professor of
Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard.
Homer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally
said to be the creator of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer's works form the groundwork of the Western canon and are
universally praised for their genius. Their formative influence in
shaping many key aspects of Greek culture was recognized by the
Greeks themselves, who considered him as their instructor.
"A masterpiece . . . An Odyssey worthy of the original." --William Arrowsmith, The Nation "Here there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand." --Seamus Heaney
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