#TheOdyssey
#Homer
#RobertFagles, translator

“Telemachus,
your comrades-at-arms are ready at the oars,
waiting for your command to launch. So come,
on with our voyage now, we're wasting time."
And Pallas Athena sped away in the lead
as he followed in her footsteps, man and goddess.

#TheIliad
#Homer
#RobertFagles, translator

“someday…a yearning for Achilles will strike Achaea's sons and all your armies! But then…harrowed as you will be, nothing you do can save you…then you will tear your heart out…raging that you disgraced the best of the Achaeans!"

#TheAeneid
#Virgil
#RobertFagles, translator

“So come, young soldiers, welcome to our house.
My destiny, harrying me with trials hard as yours,
led me as well, at last, to anchor in this land.
Schooled in suffering, now I learn to comfort
those who suffer too."

Finished #TheIliad
#Homer
#RobertFagles, translator

They quickly lowered the chest in a deep, hollow grave
…they shared a splendid funeral feast in Hector's honor,
held in the house of Priam, king by will of Zeus.
And so the Trojans buried Hector breaker of horses.

#TheAeneid
#Virgil
#RobertFagles, translator

Wars and a man I sing—an exile driven on by Fate….
Tell me,
Muse, how it all began.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
14/20

#RobertFagles #Virgil #TheAeneid #BooksThatStayedWithYou #BookSky #BooksOfBlueSky #ClassicalBlueSky

Finished #TheOdyssey
#Homer
#RobertFagles, translator

“I begged you for everything I saw…and you named them one by one.
You gave me thirteen pear, ten apple trees and forty figs -and promised to give me, look, fifty vinerows…”
Living proof -
and Laertes' knees went slack, his heart surrendered,

#TheIliad
#Homer
#RobertFagles, translator

…some boy at the seashore knocks sand castles down-
he no sooner builds his playthings up, child’s play,
than he wrecks them all with hands and kicking feet,
just for the sport of it. God of the wild cry,
Apollo-
so you wrecked the Achaeans’ work….

#TheAeneid
#Virgil
#RobertFagles, translator

she sobbed…
Dido, trying to raise her heavy eyes once more, failed.
deep in her heart the wound kept rasping, hissing on…
Her gaze wavering into the high skies, she looked
for a ray of light and when she glimpsed it, moaned…

#TheAeneid
#Virgil
#RobertFagles, translator

Straightway Rumor flies through Libya's great cities,
Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world…
"Here this Aeneas…and lovely Dido deigns to join the man in wedlock. Even now they warm the winter…with obscene desire, oblivious to their kingdoms…”

#TheIliad
#Homer
#RobertFagles, translator