Homer and the Odyssey
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Author
Contributions
- Webb, Ruth, 1963- - Contributor
Publication
2011 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England
Language
English
Word Count
105,000 words, Guess
Page Count
420 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25287962M
- ISBN-139780199542857
- ISBN-100199542856
- OCLC Control Number704381173
- OCLC Control Numberhomerodyssey0000said
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2011284812
Classifications
- DDC883.01
- LCCPA4167 .S2513 2011
Description
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. This translation is a revised and much expanded version of the original French text, and includes a new chapter on the representation of women in the Odyssey.
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