A general survey of the Odyssey, together with comment on the action, characterisation and style of books XIX and XX.

This translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of Virgil's epic poem, 'The Aeneid'.

The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English.

The centuries-old epic about the wrath of Achilles is rendered into modern English verse by a renowned translator

The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson.

Presents the legend of King Arthur in an epic, but unfinished, poem written in Old English alliterative meter.

This new translation makes the complete work available for the first time in a European language and is complemented by a full introduction illuminating Jain belief and history.

Somit wird der Homerforscher in die neusten Ergebnisse zu Textproblemen in Homers Ilias eingeführt; und bestimmte editorische Entscheidungen von West sind für den Fachmann klarer nachzuvollziehen.

These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the ...