Word: odyssey
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...selections read from The Odyssey at the Agassiz, Fagles, Walker and Robards in essence distributed such a performance among three people, allowing a striking range of voice and style...
...plunging a stake into the eye of the Cyclops. And when one hears this gory little episode read aloud, it only gets better, as was made duly clear by the epic's latest translator, Robert Fagles, and theater veterans Jason Robards and Kathryn Walker in "An Evening's 'Odyssey.'" The performance of this modern translation at once reinvigorated an already bracing classic and tapped into the ageless appeal of story-telling, of re-inventing the tale on the spot...
Classical topics have enjoyed somewhat of an upswing in popularity and attention recently in theater and print alike. Fagles's translation of The Odyssey has garnered not only widespread critical praise but also plaudits for its accessibility to the average reader. With Walker's production of another ancient classic, the play The Bacchae, to go up at the Agassiz this fall, a dramatic reading of the epic would seem natural enough...
...Odyssey's appeal in performance lies somewhat deeper than just recent popularity, as Fagles, Walker and Robards explained in an interview with the Crimson: The text itself is already quite alive, in many ways...
...fashioned type of stilted, impenetrable rendering that forces the reader into saccadic conniptions in the search for a sentence's subject. With a smile he recognizes such age-old traps of translation in his book's postscript: "Not a line-by-line translation, my version of The Odyssey is, I hope, neither so literal in rendering Homer's language...