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Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Standard Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2020-02-08T01:55:23Z |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes the Iliad. It was originally written in ancient Greek, utilizing a dactylic hexameter rhyme scheme. Although this rhyme scheme sounds beautiful in its native language, in modern English it can sound awkward and, as Eric McMillan humorously describes it, resembles “pumpkins rolling on a barn floor.” William Cullen Bryant avoided this problem by composing his translation in blank verse, a rhyme scheme that sounds natural in English. This epic poem follows Ulysses, one of the Greek leaders that brought an end to the ten-year-long Trojan war. Longing for home, he travels across the Mediterranean Sea to return to his kingdom in Ithaca; unfortunately, our hero manages to anger Neptune, the god of the sea, making his trip home agonizingly slow and extremely dangerous. While Ulysses is trying to return home, his family in Ithaca is also in danger. Suitors have traveled to the home of Ulysses to marry his wife, Penelope, believing that her husband did not survive the war. These men are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author | : I. M. Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780816700165 |
Odysseus returns at last to Ithaca where he rids his house of the evil suitors, is reunited with Penelope, and visits his aging, grieving father.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198788805 |
Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sophocles |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
This is an example of one of R.C. Jebb's editions of Sophocles' plays, originally appearing in the last years of the 19th century. He gives literary and dramatic interpretations and translations that face the Greek text.
Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : Biblo & Tannen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780819628817 |
Author | : Fabien Toulmé |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1637790139 |
A remarkable recounting of a human journey through an inhumane world. What does it mean to be a “refugee”? It is easy for those who live in relative freedom to ignore or even to villainize people who have been forced to flee their homes. After all, it can be hard to identify with others’ experiences when you haven’t been in their shoes. In Hakim’s Odyssey, we see firsthand how war can make anyone a refugee. Hakim, a successful young Syrian who had his whole life ahead of him, tells his story: how war forced him to leave everything behind, including his family, his friends, his home, and his business. After the Syrian uprising in 2011, Hakim was arrested and tortured, his town was bombed, his business was seized by the army, and members of his family were arrested or disappeared. This first leg of his odyssey follows Hakim as he travels from Syria to Lebanon, Lebanon to Jordan, and Jordan to Turkey, where he struggles to earn a living and dreams of one day returning to his home. This graphic novel is necessary reading for our time. Alternately hopeful and heartbreaking, Hakim’s Odyssey is a story about what it means to be human in a world that sometimes fails to be humane.
Author | : Fabien Toulme |
Publisher | : Graphic Mundi |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2022-03-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781637790083 |
An account, in graphic novel format, of a young Syrian refugee and how war forced him to leave everything behind, including his family, his friends, his home, and his business. This narrative follows his travels from Turkey to Greece.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher Ford |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2011-08-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101578696 |
When Zozimos is banished by an evil witch (his stepmother!) from the kingdom of Sticatha-the kingdom he was next in line to rule-he trains at battle (if you call chasing after butterflies training), travels across stormy seas (thanks for that, Poseidon), slays golems and monsters (with a lot of help), charms beautiful women (not really), and somehow (despite his own ineptitude) survives quest after quest. By the love of Zeus, though, none of it brings him any closer to home! It does, however, make for one quirky, original, giggle-provoking graphic novel sure to appeal to any kid interested in Greek mythology, or merely looking for an entertaining read.