Demystifying The Odyssey
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Author | : Zlatko Mandzuka |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2013-05-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1481790641 |
The Odyssey is considered to be the most beautiful literary work of the Western civilization, and Homer the first and the greatest poet ever. The book Demystifying the Odyssey is interpreting Homers epic in a unique and completely new way. For the first time in literature, this book explains the events and phenomena that Odysseus saw and experienced, and which were considered so far as a result of the Poets rich imagination. So, this book reveals how Odysseus went to Hades kingdom of the dead souls; what are in reality Scylla and Charybdis; who were the sirens; how the Island of Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, actually floated; how Circa turned Odysseuss sailors into pigs and other. Besides that, this book also reveals the fallacy two and a half millennia long, dating back from the first historians Herodotus and Thucydides, according to which Odysseus was wandering the Mediterranean sea. It further provides numerous proofs that Homers hero was actually wandering the Adriatic. For all those readers who are familiar with the ancient Greek literature this book will be great news and quite a surprise. On the other hand, for those who have not been quite aware of the old Greek world it will provide great knowledge on the first European civilization. In any case, this will surely be an interesting reading for all of them.
Author | : Zlatko Mandzuka |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1481790633 |
The Odyssey is considered to be the most beautiful literary work of the Western civilization, and Homer the first and the greatest poet ever. The book Demystifying the Odyssey is interpreting Homer's epic in a unique and completely new way. For the first time in literature, this book explains the events and phenomena that Odysseus saw and experienced, and which were considered so far as a result of the Poet's rich imagination. So, this book reveals how Odysseus went to Hades kingdom of the dead souls; what are in reality Scylla and Charybdis; who were the sirens; how the Island of Aeolus', the ruler of the winds, actually floated; how Circa turned Odysseus's sailors into pigs and other. Besides that, this book also reveals the fallacy two and a half millennia long, dating back from the first historians Herodotus and Thucydides, according to which Odysseus was wandering the Mediterranean sea. It further provides numerous proofs that Homer's hero was actually wandering the Adriatic. For all those readers who are familiar with the ancient Greek literature this book will be great news and quite a surprise. On the other hand, for those who have not been quite aware of the old Greek world it will provide great knowledge on the first European civilization. In any case, this will surely be an interesting reading for all of them.
Author | : Ralph Hexter |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2011-01-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0307760898 |
For those of us who know and love the incomparable Odyssey of Homer (and there are many), Dr. Hexter has created a valuable, detailed analysis, taking into account many of Homer's most fascinating subtleties.
Author | : Jennifer Kroll |
Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1425889948 |
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.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2001-11-17 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0312866690 |
In "a seamless blend of scholarship and storytelling" ("Kirkus Reviews"), Eickhoff presents a new translation of Homer's masterpiece.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801868542 |
Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.
Author | : Stephen V. Tracy |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 069121641X |
Here Stephen Tracy offers a vivid, fast-paced narrative that serves as a reading guide to Homer's monumental epic. He not only provides translations of key passages and traces the evolution of major themes in the Odyssey, but also helps new readers to understand the artistry of one of the best tales ever told. Aimed at advanced readers as well, this book stresses an appreciation of how Homer has ordered his narrative, covering such topics as character interaction, family relationships, elements of poetic language, and the symbolic treatment of death, rebirth, growth, and knowledge. Given the controversy over the way the Odyssey was composed and handed down, Tracy concentrates on presenting the poem as a highly unified work. His analysis of the narrative structure reveals the epic to be arranged as a series of parallel journeys. The journey, seen here as a symbol of growth and self-knowledge, is among the major themes discussed in detail, along with the importance of women as overseers of life's journeys and the need for the sons of heroes to grow up worthy of their fathers.
Author | : George Dimock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This rich interpretation of Homer's "Odyssey" is unique among modern readings of the poem in its detailed book-by-book approach and in its deeply humanistic voice. According to George E. Dimock, what gives the "Odyssey" its unity is Homer's overarching theme of the meaning of pain and suffering in human life. In Dimock's reading, Homer presents Odysseus -- whose name translates as "Man of Pain" as the greatest sufferer of pain and evil. But it is precisely because Odysseus accepts this challenge that he eventually wins a happiness which would have been unattainable without such testing. His suffering is not only crucial to his coming home and the establishment of his identity, but also allows him to experience what home and self mean with an intensity that would have been otherwise impossible. -- From publisher's description.
Author | : Jennifer Kroll |
Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1480795356 |
Students analyze The Odyssey using key skills for college and career readiness. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.
Author | : Dorothea Wender |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004057104 |