1. Robert Fagles was an American translator, poet, and academic.
14 Facts About Robert Fagles
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Robert Fagles was best known for his many translations of ancient Greek and Roman classics, especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer.
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Robert Fagles taught English and comparative literature for many years at Princeton University.
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Robert Fagles attended Amherst College, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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From 1960 to 1962, Robert Fagles was an English instructor at Princeton University.
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Robert Fagles retired from teaching as the Arthur W Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature in 2002, and remained a professor emeritus at Princeton.
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Between 1961 and 1996, Robert Fagles translated many ancient Greek works.
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Robert Fagles went on to publish translations of Sophocles's three Theban plays, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid.
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In 1978, Robert Fagles published I, Vincent: Poems from the Pictures of Van Gogh.
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Robert Fagles was the co-editor of Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays and Pope's Iliad and Odyssey.
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Robert Fagles died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, on March 26,2008, from prostate cancer.
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Robert Fagles was nominated for the National Book Award in Translation and won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets in 1991 for his translation of the Iliad.
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Robert Fagles later undertook a new English translation of the Aeneid, which was published in November 2006.
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Robert Fagles received a National Humanities Medal by the National Endowment for the Humanities.