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    This document provides biographical information about Robert Fagles and Bernard Knox, the translators of the Penguin Classics edition of Homer's Iliad. It states that Fagles is a professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University and has translated works by Bacchylides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Knox is the director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies and has written extensively on ancient Greek literature and theater, collaborating with Fagles on translations of works by Homer and Sophocles.

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    This document provides biographical information about Robert Fagles and Bernard Knox, the translators of the Penguin Classics edition of Homer's Iliad. It states that Fagles is a professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University and has translated works by Bacchylides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Knox is the director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies and has written extensively on ancient Greek literature and theater, collaborating with Fagles on translations of works by Homer and Sophocles.

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    PENGUIN @ CLASSICS

    THE ILIAD

    The Greeks believed that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed by a
    single poet whom they named Homer. Nothing is known of his life.
    While seven Greek cities claim the honor of being his birthplace, ancient
    tradition places him in Ionia, located in the eastern Aegean. His birth-
    date is undocumented as well, though most modern scholars now place
    the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the late eighth or early
    seventh century B.C.

    ROBERT FAGLES is Arthur W. Marks' 19 Professor of Comparative Litera-


    ture, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the recipient of the 1997
    PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award
    in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Fagles has
    been elected to the Academy, the American Academy of Arts and
    Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He has translated the
    poems of Bacchylides. His translations of Sophocles' Three Theban Plays,
    Aeschylus' Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award) and Homer's
    Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by
    The Academy of American Poets, an award from The Translation Center
    of Columbia University, and the New Jersey Humanities Book Award)
    are published in Penguin Classics. His original poetry and his translations
    have appeared in many journals and reviews, as well as in his book of
    poems, I, Vincent: Poems from the Pictures of Van Gogh. Mr. Fagles was one
    of the associate editors of Maynard Mack's Twickenham Edition of
    Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey, and, with George Steiner, edited
    Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Mr. Pagles' most recent work is a
    translation of Homer's Odyssey, available from Penguin.

    BERNARD KNOX is Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic


    Studies in Washington, D.C. His essays and reviews have appeared in
    numerous publications and in 1978 he won the George Jean Nathan
    Award for Dramatic Criticism. His works include Oedipus at Thebes: Sopho-
    des' 'Tragic Hero and His Time; The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean
    Trageay; Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theatre; Essays Ancientand
    Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award); The
    Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics; and
    Backing into the Future: The Classical 'Tradition and its Renewal. Mr. Knox is
    the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature, and has also collabo-
    rated with Robert Fagles on the Odyssey and The Three Theban Plays.

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