translator Robert Fagles is Princeton's Arthur W. Marks
'19 Professor of Comparative Literature, and member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. He received a 1996
Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters for his translation of The Odyssey
and several awards for his translation of The Iliad,
including the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by
the Academy of American Poets. His acclaimed translations
also include Sophocles' Three Theban Plays and
Aeschylus' The Oresteia, nominated for a National
Book Award in 1977.
translator Robert Fagles is Princeton's Arthur W. Marks
'19 Professor of Comparative Literature, and member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. He received a 1996
Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters for his translation of The Odyssey
and several awards for his translation of The Iliad,
including the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by
the Academy of American Poets. His acclaimed translations
also include Sophocles' Three Theban Plays and
Aeschylus' The Oresteia, nominated for a National
Book Award in 1977.