Speak, Memory— Of the cunning hero… Invocació de l’Odissea d’Stanley Lombardo

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Speak, Memory—

Stanley F. Lombardo (New Orleans, 1943)

 

…………………………..Of the cunning hero,

The wanderer, blown off course time and again

After he plundered Troy’s sacred heights.

…………………………………………………..Speak 

Of all the cities he saw, the minds he grasped,

The suffering deep in his heart at sea

As he struggled to survive and bring his men home

But could not save them, hard as he tried—

The fools—destroyed by their own recklessness

When they ate the oxen of Hyperion the Sun,

And that god snuffed out their day of return.

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Odyssey, I, 1-10

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Translated by Stanley Lombardo

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Homer

Odyssey

Translated by Stanley Lombardo

Introduction by Sheila Murnaghan

Hackett Publishing Company. Indianapolis, Indiana, 2000

ISBN: 9780872204843

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