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Homer and the Odyssey

By Suzanne Said

Homer and the Odyssey

By Suzanne Said

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Who was Homer? This book takes us beyond the legends of the blind bard or the wandering poet to explore an author about whom nothing is known, except for his works. It offers a reading of the ancient biographies as clues to the reception of the Homeric poems in Antiquity and provides an introduction to the oral tradition which lay at the source of the Homeric epics. Above all, it takes us into the world of the Odyssey, a world that lies between history and fiction. It guides the reader through a poem which rivals the modern novel in its complexity, demonstrating the unity of the poem as a whole. It defines the many and varied figures of otherness by which the Greeks of the archaic period defined themselves and underlines the values promoted by the poem's depictions of men, women, and gods. Finally, it asks why, throughout the centuries from Homer to Kazantzakis and Joyce, the hero who never forgets his homeland and dreams constantly of return has never ceased to be the incarnation of what it is to be human.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
428
Release Date:
2011-10-15
Publication Date:
2011-09-22
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199542848
ISBN13:
9780199542840
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
732 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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