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The Best of Homer's Odyssey

The Best of Homer's Odyssey

The Classics Cave
Young, Tim J.
Homer

Paperback

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1943915083
ISBN13: 9781943915088
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 11 2022
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Best of Homer's Odyssey presents the best of Homer's great epic poem in translated and narrative summary form.

If you've never read the Odyssey, and you don't know how much time you'd like to invest in doing so, then this version is for you. You'll get the best parts of the poem in translation (about one-half) and a narrative summary of the rest.

In addition to the poem, there's an informative introduction exploring Why We Should Care about Homer, Basic Facts about Homer, and The Big Themes and Ideas of the Odyssey. After reading the poem, you'll find toward the end of the book Other Matters of Interest Related to Homer's Odyssey, which includes: The Cast of Gods and Men; maps depicting the journeys of Odysseus and Telemachus; a glossary of Homeric Greek terms; suggestions for further reading. Finally, there is a section offering Points of Wisdom & Ways of Practice-a chance to apply Homeric wisdom to your own life and practice it.

Why should you want to read Homer's Odyssey?

Go back a few thousand years and Homer's Odyssey was a perennial blockbuster. That's because Homer himself was the one everyone turned to for entertainment, education, and inspiration. A scholar once claimed that if a Greek owned any books-that is, papyrus rolls-he was almost as likely to own the Iliad and the Odyssey as anything from the rest of Greek literature. Homer was Greece's chief educator and coach; he shaped Greek feelings, thoughts, and behavior.

Homer is celebrated today for the Odyssey, a sweeping epic poem that tells the story of Odysseus' harrowing return home after the Trojan War and his epic battle against the suitors. The archetypal voyager, Odysseus endures countless heartaches and hardships during his journey home, confronting gods, monsters, and men, all out to harm him. He faces himself, as well-his desire to give up before reaching his goal.

What now? Drag your hollow ship into the wine-faced sea, raise the sail, and get ready to voyage into an ancient world full of monsters and gods, enemies and friends, strange lands and home. Welcome to Homer's Odyssey!

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