The Odyssey

Übersetzer: Rouse, W. H. D.

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Produktbeschreibung

THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME-NOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD. Homer's Odyssey has been called "the first novel," "the first expression of the mind in literary form," and "the best story ever written." Whether fans of suspense, fantasy or human drama, readers of all ages thrill to Homer's vibrant picture of Odysseus on his decade-long journey, as he meets the lotus-eaters, cunningly flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the sexy Sirens, narrowly escapes Scylla and Charybdis, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks in exotic cities-all the while struggling to make it home to his wife and son. Adventure on the high seas, legendary romance, tests of endurance, betrayal, heroism-the saga has all these and more, imagined by the most famous bard of all time. But, as Aristotle pointed out, "his greatness was that he himself was nowhere to be found in his story. His characters were everywhere." Blind and possibly illiterate, Homer has still "in loftiness of thought surpass'd"* any storyteller since 900 B.C.E. *John Dryden

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 170mm x 103mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780451474339
• ISBN-10: 0451474333
• Artikelnr.: 42516056

Autorenporträt

Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer—the Iliad and the Odyssey —are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.