Robert Fagles
Born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States
September 11, 1933
Died
March 26, 2008
Genre
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The Odyssey
1076 editions
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published
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DN Iliad
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5944 editions
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published
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Antigone
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1116 editions
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published
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The Aeneid
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2815 editions
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published
-19
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The Iliad / The Odyssey
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733 editions
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published
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The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone
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371 editions
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I, Vincent: Poems from the Pictures of Van Gogh
2 editions
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published
1978
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AESCHYLUS THE ORESTERIA
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Rare THE ODYSSEY by HOMER; TRANSLATED BY Robert Fagles [Paperback] Robert Fagles
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Bacchylides Complete Poems
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“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.”
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“You are the king no doubt, but in one respect,
at least, I am your equal: the right to reply.
I claim that privilege too.
I am not your slave. I serve Apollo.
I don't need Creon to speak for me in public.
So,
you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this.
You with your precious eyes,
you're blind to the corruption in your life,
to the house you live in, those you live with-
who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing
you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood,
the dead below the earth and the living here above,
and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse
will whip you from this land one day, their footfall
treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding
your eyes that now can see the light!
Soon, soon,
you'll scream aloud - what haven won't reverberate?
What rock of Cithaeron won't scream back in echo?
That day you learn the truth about your marriage,
the wedding-march that sang you into your halls,
the lusty voyage home to the fatal harbor!
And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream
will level you with yourself and all your children.
There. Now smear us with insults - Creon, myself
and every word I've said. No man will ever
be rooted from the earth as brutally as you.”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone
at least, I am your equal: the right to reply.
I claim that privilege too.
I am not your slave. I serve Apollo.
I don't need Creon to speak for me in public.
So,
you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this.
You with your precious eyes,
you're blind to the corruption in your life,
to the house you live in, those you live with-
who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing
you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood,
the dead below the earth and the living here above,
and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse
will whip you from this land one day, their footfall
treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding
your eyes that now can see the light!
Soon, soon,
you'll scream aloud - what haven won't reverberate?
What rock of Cithaeron won't scream back in echo?
That day you learn the truth about your marriage,
the wedding-march that sang you into your halls,
the lusty voyage home to the fatal harbor!
And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream
will level you with yourself and all your children.
There. Now smear us with insults - Creon, myself
and every word I've said. No man will ever
be rooted from the earth as brutally as you.”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone
“Homer was thus at once contemporary in content and antique in form." - Bernard Knox”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
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