The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation by Homer & Robert Fitzgerald

Author:Homer & Robert Fitzgerald [Homer & Fitzgerald, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780374525743
Amazon: 0374525749
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1753-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

“Telémakhos,

what am I to do now? Return alone

and lie again on my forsaken bed—

sodden how often with my weeping

since that day when Odysseus put to sea

to join the Atreidai before Troy?

Could you not

tell me, before the suitors fill our house,

what news you have of his return?”

He answered:

“Now that you ask a second time, dear Mother,

here is the truth.

We went ashore at Pylos

to Nestor, lord and guardian of the West,

who gave me welcome in his towering hall.

So kind he was, he might have been my father

and I his long-lost son—so truly kind,

taking me in with his own honored sons.

But as to Odysseus’ bitter fate,

living or dead, he had no news at all

from anyone on earth, he said. He sent me

overland in a strong chariot

to Atreus’ son, the captain, Menelaos.

And I saw Helen there, for whom the Argives

fought, and the Trojans fought, as the gods willed.

Then Menelaos of the great war cry

asked me my errand in that ancient land

of Lakedaimon. So I told our story,

and in reply he burst out:

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