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Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-06-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781500200145 |
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The Odyssey recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Although originally written in heroic verse, it has been called the first novel because of its exciting use of narrative and the effective use of flashbacks to heighten the dramatic action. While The Iliad is a collection of mythical material that grew up about an event that seems actually to have occurred toward the end of the Mycenean era, The Odyssey is largely a collection of folk tales, many of which are easily recognizable in the legends of other lands. We know very little about the author of The Odyssey. Most scholars agree that Homer was Greek. According to legend, he was blind, though scholarly evidence can neither confirm nor contradict the point. No one, however, disputes the fact that The Odyssey (and The Iliad as well) arose from oral tradition. Stock phrases, types of episodes, and repeated phrases -- such as "early, rose-fingered dawn" -- bear the mark of epic storytelling. Scholars agree, too, that this tale of the Greek hero Odysseus's journey and adventures as he returned home from Troy to Ithaca is a work of the greatest historical significance and, indeed, one of the foundations of Western literature.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Ten years have passed since the fall of Troy, and the Greek hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom in Ithaca. A large and rowdy mob of suitors who have overrun Odysseus's palace and pillaged his land continue to court his wife, Penelope. She has remained faithful to Odysseus. Prince Telemachus, Odysseus's son, wants desperately to throw them out but does not have the confidence or experience to fight them. One of the suitors, Antinous, plans to assassinate the young prince, eliminating the only opposition to their dominion over the palace.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lewis Greville Pocock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Mediterranean Region |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Tzetzes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : 9780674238374 |
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The twelfth-century Byzantine scholar, poet, and teacher John Tzetzes composed the verse commentary Allegories of the Odyssey to explain Odysseus's journey and the pagan gods and marvels he encountered. This edition presents the first translation of the Allegories of the Odyssey into any language alongside the Greek text.
Author | : John Greville Agard Pocock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gillian Cross |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2012-09-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763647918 |
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Traces Odysseus' ten-year voyage home after the Trojan War, a journey marked by a man-eating Cyclops, deadly Sirens, the fury of the sea-god Poseidon, and Odysseus' faithful wife's efforts to rebuff greedy suitors.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 1999-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060931957 |
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The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English.
Author | : George Dimock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : |
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This rich interpretation of Homer's "Odyssey" is unique among modern readings of the poem in its detailed book-by-book approach and in its deeply humanistic voice. According to George E. Dimock, what gives the "Odyssey" its unity is Homer's overarching theme of the meaning of pain and suffering in human life. In Dimock's reading, Homer presents Odysseus -- whose name translates as "Man of Pain" as the greatest sufferer of pain and evil. But it is precisely because Odysseus accepts this challenge that he eventually wins a happiness which would have been unattainable without such testing. His suffering is not only crucial to his coming home and the establishment of his identity, but also allows him to experience what home and self mean with an intensity that would have been otherwise impossible. -- From publisher's description.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1802 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : |
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