Robert Fagles (/ˈfeɪɡəlz/;[1] September 11, 1933 – March 26, 2008)[2][3] was an American translator, poet, and academic.

In the 1970s, Fagles began translating much Greek drama, beginning with Aeschylus's The Oresteia.

He went on to publish translations of Sophocles's three Theban plays (1982), Homer's Iliad (1990) and Odyssey (1996), and Virgil's Aeneid (2006).

Fagles's translations generally emphasize contemporary English phrasing and idiom but are faithful to the original as much as possible.

Fagles died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, on March 26, 2008, from prostate cancer.

[7] On June 8, 2011, a resource center devoted to the study of the Classics was dedicated to Dr. Fagles at Princeton High School.