《奥德赛》全诗有12110行，叙述希腊军队主要将领之一、伊塔卡王奥德修斯在战争结束之后，历经十年漂泊，返回家园的故事。

一场由美女海伦引起的十年鏖战--特洛伊战争！一本有关特洛伊战争的长篇光辉史诗，一部欧洲古典文学的不朽名著--《荷马史诗》！！！希腊英雄阿基琉斯和大无畏的王子赫克托尔在本书中共同演绎了一场为了荣誉、尊严的惊天地泣鬼神的世纪大战……

《奥德修纪》是古希腊英雄史诗代表作，约形成于公元前九、十世纪，相传为荷马所作。史诗以古希腊英雄人物奥德修为主人公，讲述了他在伊利昂城攻下之后在海上艰苦飘流十年返回故乡，以及他回乡后如何复仇的故事。作为古代西方文化中最著名的叙事长诗之一，《奥德修纪》在文学、艺术上散发着永恒的魅力，并且在历史、地理或民俗学等方面都有相当大的价值。

今年是我国著名古希腊文学学者、翻译家罗念生诞辰１００周年，为纪念这位将毕生精力献给翻译古希腊文学的翻译家，十卷本的《罗念生全集》问世，是迄今为止收集罗念生译著最全的版本。作为古希腊文学与文字专家，罗念生致力于这项工作长达６０年，翻译出版的译文和专著达五十余种，近千万字。此外，他还主编了《古希腊语——汉语词典》，为希腊文化在中国的传播贡献了巨大力量。《罗念生全集》除收录了罗念生的精彩译文(文评、文学、小说、诗歌、散文、寓言等)以及相关研究论文外，还包括他自己创作的散文诗歌以及和友人间的通信、纪念文章等。《全集》共有三百五十万言，可谓是洋洋大观。

Selections from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

This timeless poem-more than 2,700 year old-still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Readers of this epic poem will be gripped by the finely tuned translation and enlightening introduction. Translated by Robert Fagles Introduction and Notes by Bernard

If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. Translated by Robert Fagles Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox 请读者注意，你将要购买的这本书属于“Rough Cut”即传统的毛边剪裁。 A:有些精装书的切口为何很毛糙？ Q:毛边书在国外出版界通常用于重要的精品图书，为了使特定图书看起来更特别更有品味。在过去毛边书的生产流程会更为复杂和昂贵。而且毛糙的切口对于藏书者来 说可是贴心举措！当你阅读后，可以将该书拿去给印刷厂在毛糙切口处重切一刀，黑色的手指印和因为阅读而形成的卷曲立即消失，一本崭新的适于收藏的图书出现 了！ 国内读者可千万别误会这属于品质差的图书，所有亚马逊中国提供的原版书都是由国家规定的图书进出口公司进口的国外出版社正规制作的原版图书产品，与国外销 售的产品完全一样。

"The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language."--William Arrowsmith "Certainly the best modern verse translation."--Gilbert Highet "This magnificent translation of Homer's epic poem . . . will appeal to admirers of Homer and the classics, and the multitude who always wanted to read the great "Iliad" but never got around to doing so."--"The American Book Collector" "Perhaps closer to Homer in every way than any other version made in English."--Peter Green, "The New Republic" "The feat is decisive that it is reasonable to foresee a century or so in which nobody will try again to put the "Iliad" in English verse."--Robert Fitzgerald "Each new generation is bound to produce new translations. [Lattimore] has done better with nobility, as well as with accuracy, than any other modern verse translator. In our age we do not often find a fine scholar who is also a genuine poet and who takes the greatest pains over the work of translation."--Hugh Lloyd-Jones, "New York Review of Books" "Over the long haul Lattimore's translation is more powerful because its effects are more subtle."--"Booklist" "Richmond Lattimore is a fine translator of poetry because he has a poetic voice of his own, authentic and unmistakable and yet capable of remarkable range of modulation. His translations make the English reader aware of the poetry."--Moses Hadas, "The New York Times"