Thread: "How's that shroud coming along, Penelope?": The Odyssey Thread
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Old 04-18-2012, 04:36 PM   #4
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I read the B&N Classics edition of the Odyssey last year. It was arranged in a prose format which was much easier to read than the B&NC Iliad (which I still haven't finished) and came with some fairly informative footnotes for cultural terms and mythological references.

I got mine back during one of those freebie giveaway promos, and I'd say that the entire thing is worth about the $1.99 price B&N used to charge for their Classics line back then. Not enough value-add to justify a $3.99 price for a fancied-up older public domain translation, IMHO.
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