Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2 700 years The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world s greatest war story then The Odyssey is literature s greatest evocation of every man s journey through life. Here again Fagles has performed the translator s task magnificently giving us an Odyssey to read aloud to savor and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox. about The Odyssey