The Iliad is a tale of the camp and the battle - field : the Odyssey combines the romance of travel with that of domestic life . The key - note of the Iliad is glory that of the Odyssey is rest . This was amongst the reasons which led ...
Author: Homer
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ISBN: HARVARD:HN3QA3
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The Name Odyssey The Odyssey is named from the Greek form of the name of its hero, Odysseus, just as the Iliad is named from Ilios, the Greek name for the city of Troy, These two poems, written in hexameter verse, stand at the beginning ...
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Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 9781602068261
Category: Fiction
Page: 332
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For a work that is a foundational text not merely of modern literature but of all of Western civilization, it's surprising how little is known of its origins. The epic adventure The Odyssey was originally told in oral form and may have been written down for the first time in the 8th century BC. We attribute the work to the Greek poet Homer, but little is known about him, or if, indeed, the author was but a single person. What is certain, though, is that The Odyssey is absolutely required reading for anyone who wishes to be considered truly educated and literate even today, nearly three thousand years after it was first written. This replica of 1911 edition presents the 1851 translation by THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY (1825-1856), a highly readable rendition of the nine-year journey of the solider Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. It's a compelling translation that makes plain how strikingly modern Homer's writing was, with its nonlinear plot fleshed out by flashbacks and driven as much by the actions of ordinary mortals-even women and slaves!-as it is by men of heroic stature and the gods themselves. As entertaining as it is edifying, this is one of humanity's grandest literary achievements.Dawe, R. D. The Odyssey: Translation and Analysis. Sussex 1993. Finley, M. I. The World of Odysseus. New York 1954. Garvie, A. F. Homer: Odyssey, Books VI-VIII. Cambridge 1994. Heaney, Seamus. Introduction to The Odyssey, translated by ...
Author: Homer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781451674187
Category: Fiction
Page: 432
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A new translation of Homer's epic adventure endeavors to instill the poetic nature of its original language while retaining accuracy, readability, and character vibrancy, creating the most captivating rendition of one of the defining masterpieces of Western literature.In this sense, we can approach the Odyssey as a study of Homeric cognition in response to the pervasive social displacement that follows an interminable, disastrous war (Underwood 2018). In brief, while the Iliad is about the rancor and ...
Author: Homer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780761873693
Category: Epic poetry, Greek
Page: 305
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This is a complete translation into contemporary English of the ancient Greek epic by Homer. The translation by Charles Underwood is presented in prose to emphasize the distinctive narrative qualities that illustrate Homer's mastery of stirring language and evocative storytelling.Little is known with any certainty about Homer, who is credited with having written or composed the ancient Greek epic poem The Odyssey and its companion epic, The Iliad . Although we read these works today in the way we might read a ...
Author: Jennifer Kroll
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 9781425889944
Category: Education
Page: 75
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Aid students as they explore a mythical world, and analyze and comprehend a timeless story. The Odyssey: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities to teach students to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Written to support the Common Core, this instructional guide is the perfect tool to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature.Quote the words ( 130 ) which again voice the central idea of the Odyssey . ( Cf. question 5 above . ) 43. Show that the fortunes of Odysseus hinged on the adventure of page 141. ( Cf. page 168. ) 44. Outline Book Ten .
Author: Homer
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ISBN: WISC:89004528311
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Translation of books 13-24.Such was the versatility, and such the many-sided energy, of the Greek as he appears in the Iliad and Odyssey. And as these two poems contain the elements of all subsequent thought and progress in the Greek nation, so in the typical ...
Author: H. L Havell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9783752361759
Category: Fiction
Page: 162
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Reproduction of the original: Stories From the Odyssey by H. L HavellAt that instant Odysseus casts off his disguise ; with his son , and two trusty followers , he falls on the suitors in the palace - hall , and slays them : and the faithless servingmaids of the house are hanged . XXIII . ( ψ .
Author: Richard Claverhouse Jebb
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ISBN: HARVARD:32044013528203
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1947- The Odyssey : an epic of return / William G. Thalmann. p. cm. — (Twayne's masterwork studies ; 100) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8057-9424-7 — ISBN 0-8057-8564-7 (pbk.) 1. Homer. Odyssey. 2.
Author: William G. Thalmann
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: UOM:39015020852268
Category: Epic poetry, Greek
Page: 180
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Homer's two great epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, stand as cornerstones not only of Western literature but also of Western thought and culture, for although readers of two millennia have imitated or opposed these works' paradigm of character and action, few have ignored it. Where the Iliad strikes a heavy tone of tragic grandeur, the Odyssey evokes an atmosphere of adventure and fate. The latter work's key figure, Odysseus the restless wanderer, pervades our language and our thinking: his self-defining journey of experience and maturation has remained one of the world's most explored subjects of artistic expression. In his cogent reading of the Odyssey William G. Thalmann argues that, like its hero, the text is impossible to reduce to a single summary or set of oppositions. As presented in Homer's narrative, the polarities of nature versus civilization, war versus peace, action versus word, and force versus metis (intelligence) are fraught with ambiguity. Thalmann singles out in particular the precarious nature of metis, which imbues Odysseus with constructive intelligence but also a dangerous duplicity. Similarly, Thalmann contends that in all his travels Odysseus both inflicts pain and himself suffers after having saved his own life via his cleverness. Aside from its explorations of human character, however, the poem quite simply tells a wonderful story. Odysseus's myriad adventures during his 10-year struggle to get home to Ithaka have the powerful appeal of folktale and fairy tale: the poem's narrative, Thalmann asserts, offers the pleasure of desiring an end that is delayed by obstacles in the outer world and the necessity for intrigues on Ithaka, with the simultaneousassurance that the end will come, and that it will be a happy one. Thalmann perceptively identifies traces of class and gender inquiry in Homer's epic. The poem seems to open up questions about the upholding of a system by which those at the top of society are maintained by the labor of those below, Thalmann maintains; in due course, however, these questions are closed off with the ideal solution of the return of the righteous king, promising prosperity for all. Additionally, Thalmann detects in Penelope an independence and importance rarely accorded women in Greek literature or Greek life; her like-mindedness with Odysseus is emphasized and their marriage characterized as a collaboration between them. What makes Homer's text so relevant to our times, Thalmann concludes, is its suffusion with contradiction and elusiveness. Odysseus, after all, is a hero with a constantly deferred future, and the poem's ending preserves the tension between his two conflicting sides, for when peace is at hand our hero, overcome with battle fury, assaults the relatives of his enemies. Ultimately, Thalmann finds that, happy ending notwithstanding, Homer's masterpiece depicts man's complex and often insidious relationship with the world - a world wherein that which passes for truth seems like fantasy, and lies contain no monsters or miracles but are indistinguishable from the reality of experience.