The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic

In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly, lotus-eating, homesick companions; and between subtle Odysseus (wiliest hero of antiquity) and a range of shape-shifting adversaries Calypso, Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops as he and his men are "pinballed between islands" of adversity. One of the most individual voices of his generation, Armitage revitalizes our sense of the Odyssey as oral poetry, as indeed one of the greatest of tall tales."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/01/2008
ISBN: 9780393330816
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.76w x 0.65d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/21/2008 pg. 30
New York Times Book Review 04/27/2008 pg. 20
New York Times Book Review 05/04/2008 pg. 22