Reading Homer’s Odyssey / / Kostas Myrsiades.
Finalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section Homer’s Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities and schools...
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Myrsiades, Kostas, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Reading Homer’s Odyssey / Kostas Myrsiades. Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2021] ©2019 1 online resource (375 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I From Ithaca to Wonderland -- 1 Telemachus’ Journey (Od. 1–4) -- 2 Odysseus from Calypso to the Phaeacians (Od. 5–8) -- 3 Odysseus’ Wanderings (Od. 9–12) -- PART II From Wonderland to Ithaca -- 4 Odysseus and Telemachus at Eumaeus’ Hut (Od. 13–16) -- 5 Odysseus and Telemachus Strategize at the Palace (Od. 17–20) -- 6 Revenge, Reunion, and Reconciliation (Od. 21–24) -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- General Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Finalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section Homer’s Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities and schools, and to be read and referred to by ordinary readers. Reading Homer’s Odyssey offers a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s themes that informs the non-specialist and engages the seasoned reader in new perspectives. Among the themes discussed are hospitality, survival, wealth, reputation and immortality, the Olympian gods, self-reliance and community, civility, behavior, etiquette and technology, ease, inactivity and stagnation, Penelope’s relationship with Odysseus, Telemachus’ journey, Odysseus’ rejection of Calypso’s offer of immortality, Odysseus’ lies, Homer’s use of the House of Atreus and other myths, the cinematic qualities of the epic’s structure, women’s role in the epic, and the Odyssey’s true ending. Footnotes clarify and elaborate upon myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Odyssey, in addition to the bibliographies that accompany each book’s commentary. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684481347 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781684481347 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781684481347.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I From Ithaca to Wonderland -- 1 Telemachus’ Journey (Od. 1–4) -- 2 Odysseus from Calypso to the Phaeacians (Od. 5–8) -- 3 Odysseus’ Wanderings (Od. 9–12) -- PART II From Wonderland to Ithaca -- 4 Odysseus and Telemachus at Eumaeus’ Hut (Od. 13–16) -- 5 Odysseus and Telemachus Strategize at the Palace (Od. 17–20) -- 6 Revenge, Reunion, and Reconciliation (Od. 21–24) -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- General Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I From Ithaca to Wonderland -- 1 Telemachus’ Journey (Od. 1–4) -- 2 Odysseus from Calypso to the Phaeacians (Od. 5–8) -- 3 Odysseus’ Wanderings (Od. 9–12) -- PART II From Wonderland to Ithaca -- 4 Odysseus and Telemachus at Eumaeus’ Hut (Od. 13–16) -- 5 Odysseus and Telemachus Strategize at the Palace (Od. 17–20) -- 6 Revenge, Reunion, and Reconciliation (Od. 21–24) -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- General Bibliography -- Index |
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