Like you, I read Homer's Odyssey in high school, and again in college. I experienced it for the first time ten years ago reading Robert Fagels' translation. Fagels died Wednesday at the age of 74. His last translation, Virgil's Aeneid, just came out in paperback a few months ago. This excerpt describes the famous Trojan horse being pulled into the city of Troy:
We breach our own ramparts, fling our defenses open,
all pitch into the work. Smooth running rollers
we wheel beneath its hoofs, and heavy hempen ropes
we bind around its neck, and teeming with men-at-arms
the huge deadly engine climbs our city walls.
Treat yourself to any of his recent works. You won't be disappointed.
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