Odyssey

By: HOMER

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Paperback | 5 May 1992

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Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they did in Archaic Greece, 2800 years ago. This poem has been translated many times over the years, but Chapman's sinewy, gorgeous rendering (1616) stands in a class of its own. Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself, and matches the breadth and power of the original with a complex and stunning idiom of his own. John Keats expressed his admiration for the resulting work in the famous sonnet, 'On first looking into Chapman's Homer': 'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold...' AUTHOR: The two earliest surviving poetic works of ancient Greece, the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey' are attributed to 'Homer', but it seems likely that no such individual existed, the works being developed over an extended period of time until they achieved their final form in the 6th century BC. Whatever their origins, these epic poems were a major influence in the development of Greek culture.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Poetry Fiction Classic Fiction Historical Fiction Sagas Non-Fiction Prose Literary Essays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets General Literary Studies

Classical Literary Studies Philosophy

Introduction	p. xiii
Note on the Text	p. lxiv
Odyssey 1	p. 1
Odyssey 2	p. 15
Odyssey 3	p. 28
Odyssey 4	p. 44
Odyssey 5	p. 70
Odyssey 6	p. 85
Odyssey 7	p. 95
Odyssey 8	p. 106
Odyssey 9	p. 125
Odyssey 10	p. 141
Odyssey 11	p. 158
Odyssey 12	p. 178
Odyssey 13	p. 192
Odyssey 14	p. 206
Odyssey 15	p. 222
Odyssey 16	p. 240
Odyssey 17	p. 256
Odyssey 18	p. 276
Odyssey 19	p. 290
Odyssey 20	p. 309
Odyssey 21	p. 322
Odyssey 22	p. 336
Odyssey 23	p. 353
Odyssey 24	p. 365
Translator's Postscript	p. 382
Glossary of Names	p. 385
Index of Speeches	p. 403
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 412
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