About the Book: Mendelsohn’s translation is touted as a momentous, authoritative new version praised for its archaic grandeur and musical quality. It distinguishes itself by artfully reproducing the epic’s formal qualities (meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance) using an expansive six-beat line to closely mirror the original Greek, verse for verse. The result is hailed as the richest, most precise, and most musical English translation, fully conveying the poem’s oral tradition and bringing its classic themes and adventure to vivid life, complete with an extensive introduction and comprehensive notes.