Fagles was one of the associate editors of Maynard Mack's Twickenham Edition of Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey, and, with George Steiner, edited Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays.

His original poetry and his translations have appeared in many journals and reviews, as well as in his book of poems, I, Vincent: Poems from the Pictures of Van Gogh. His translations of Sophocles' Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus' Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award) and Homer's Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets, an award from The Translation Center of Columbia University, and the New Jersey Humanities Book Award) are published in Penguin Classics. He has translated the poems of Bacchylides. Fagles has been elected to the Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Marks' 19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University.

His birthdate is undocumented as well, though most modern scholars now place the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the late eighth or early seventh century B.C. While seven Greek cities claim the honor of being his birthplace, ancient tradition places him in Ionia, located in the eastern Aegean. BERNARD ILIAD The Greeks believed that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed by a single poet whom they named Homer.

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