Definition: Robert Fagles (September 11, 1933 – March 26, 2008) was an emeritus professor at Princeton University best known by the public for his excellent translations of Vergil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
Besides translating the three major classical epics into pleasing modern English, Fagles translated Bacchylides, the Oresteia of Aeschylus, and Sophocles' 3 Theban plays.
Fagles received his PhD in English at Yale.
Fagles was born in Philadelphia, PA. He died at his home in Priceton, NJ, of prostate cancer.
