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Title: Odyssey
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Manufacturer: Parmenides Audio
List Price: $42.00
Our Price: $26.22
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| Odyssey by Parmenides Audio OK substance, weak packaging. | This product can lead to a needless waste of time and money if you are not careful.
It is a difficult product to review. The subtraction by addition of Susan Sarandon generally starts me out with all the wrong ideas. Her contribution is screechy preaching and inartistic.
It is also exhausting and irritating to listen to a translations when someone thinks that Anglo-Saxon profanity adds anything to a work that was not first written in Anglo-Saxon profanity.
The product packaging, finally, is out of date because it is awkward to add-in an iTunes digital/music database systems.
I recommended not to spend the money for a CD version and download from some other site at a lower cost. Perhaps in a downloaded format it will also be easier to shed the useless appendage of the Sarandon commentaries -- which give a tacky "Bull Durham Effect" to the whole matter. It will also allow you to afford the written text that is a must for any favorable appreciation by those with classical sensibilities.
I managed finally to listen to and read along with the Lombardo text. My conclusion is that Mr. Lombardo has a decent translation. But, he is also far too amateur at voice and diction to read his own text. His voice is strained and flat. Much poetry is sacrificed to the delivery. | | Odyssey by Parmenides Audio If it can help 8th graders, it can help anyone! | | I purchased this to accompany the class set of "The Odyssey" for my 8th grade Reading students. I thought the reading was excellent, and my students loved hearing it aloud, as it is meant to be enjoyed. It helped their comprehension immensely-they rarely had questions when listening, while they asked numerous questions when trying to read alone. There are a few places where the book and the cd do not match exactly, but it's never more than one word at a time. The introductions are, however, often not quite accurate-the information is not always with the proper chapter. The information is correct, just misplaced. | | Odyssey by Parmenides Audio Product Description | The classics are rapidly receding from public consciousness, and modern revisions of them, such as the film O Brother, Where Art Thou, are in genuine danger of never being linked to their original inspiration. Noted classicist Stanley Lombardo breathes new life into one of the most famous and beloved ancient works with an engaging and vibrant audio performance of Homer's Odyssey. This state-of-the-art compact disc recording provides high-quality access to one of the greatest works in world literature.
“Lombardo has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the narrative energy and a whirlwind pace. The lines, rhythmic and clipped, have the tautness and force of Odysseus’ bow.”--Chris Hedges, The New York Times Book Review
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