Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Knox is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature, and has also collaborated with Robert Fagles on the Odyssey and The Three Theban Plays. His works include Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Trageay Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theatre Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award) The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and its Renewal. His essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications and in 1978 he won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. Fagles' most recent work is a translation of Homer's Odyssey, available from Penguin.īERNARD KNOX is Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. Fagles was one of the associate editors of Maynard Mack's Twickenham Edition of Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey, and, with George Steiner, edited Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays. His original poetry and his translations have appeared in many journals and reviews, as well as in his book of poems, I, Vincent: Poems from the Pictures of Van Gogh. His translations of Sophocles' Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus' Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award) and Homer's Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets, an award from The Translation Center of Columbia University, and the New Jersey Humanities Book Award) are published in Penguin Classics. He has translated the poems of Bacchylides. Fagles has been elected to the Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. His birth-date is undocumented as well, though most modern scholars now place the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the late eighth or early seventh century B.C. While seven Greek cities claim the honor of being his birthplace, ancient tradition places him in Ionia, located in the eastern Aegean. The Greeks believed that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed by a single poet whom they named Homer. TEXTUAL VARIANTS FROM THE OXFORD CLASSICAL TEXT BOOK TWELVE - The Trojans Storm the RampartīOOK NINETEEN - The Champion Arms for BattleīOOK TWENTY-ONE - Achilles Fights the RiverīOOK TWENTY-THREE - Funeral Games for Patroclus
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