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Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Robert Fagles

Robert Fagles was an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek and Roman classics, especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer. He taught English and comparative literature for many years at Princeton University.

American - Professor | September 11, 1933 - March 26, 2008

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I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines. — © Robert Fagles

I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.

Robert Fagles

Robert Fagles

The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.

Robert Fagles

Robert Fagles

The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.

Robert Fagles

Robert Fagles

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