The Essential Odyssey

Author : Homer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789357001229
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Odyssey written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odysseus, one of the war heroes, has still not arrived in his home country of Ithaca ten years after the Trojan War and the Fall of Troy. Odysseus is presumed dead, leaving his wife Penelope and son Telemachus to deal with a gang of wild suitors vying for Penelope's hand in marriage who have overtaken his palace and pillaged his country. Odysseus, however, is still alive and being held captive on the island of Ogygia by Calypso, who is madly in love with him and longs to make him her everlasting husband. How is Odysseus going to get home? Will he find his beloved Penelope again? The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus' "nostos" trip back home, expanding Homer's vibrant image of everyman's journey through life. It is the second-oldest piece of still-existing Western literature.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603840230
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Odyssey written by Homer and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Sheila Murnaghan's Introduction, a shortened version of her essay for the unabridged edition, is ideal for readers new to this remarkable tale of the homecoming of Odysseus.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199394074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer's Iliad and Odyssey written by Homer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned Homer scholar Barry B. Powell has already given the world powerful new translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Now his Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: The Essential Books brings together his translations of the most important books and passages from these two great poems in one handy volume. Accessible, poetic, and accurate, Barry Powell's translations are an excellent fit for today's students. With swift, transparent language that rings both ancient and modern, Powell exposes students to all of the rage, pleasure, pathos, cunning, and humor that are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Both the translations and the introductions are informed by the best recent scholarship. FEATURES * Uses well-modulated verse and accurate English that is contemporary but never without dignity * Powell's introduction sets the poems in their philological, mythological, and historical contexts * Features unique on-page notes, facilitating students' engagement with the poems * Embedded illustrations accompanied by extensive captions provide Greek and Roman visual sources for key passages * Maps provide geographic context for the poems' many place names * Audio recordings (read by Powell) of important passages are available on the book's Companion Website and indicated in the text margin by an icon

Author : Homer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198788805
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odyssey written by Homer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780819628817
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey of Homer written by Andrew Lang and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Homer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160384368X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Odyssey written by Homer and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generous abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey" offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Sheila Murnaghan's Introduction, a shortened version of her essay for the unabridged edition, is ideal for readers new to this remarkable tale of the homecoming of Odysseus.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603842241
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Homer written by Homer and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.A7/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey written by Homer and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2020-02-08T01:55:23Z with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Homer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780872205413
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Homer : Selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey written by Homer and published by Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

Author : A. G. Lombardo
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374716714
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graffiti Palace written by A. G. Lombardo and published by MCD. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, exhilarating debut novel that retells The Odyssey during the 1965 Watts Riots—like nothing you’ve ever read before It’s August 1965 and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically trying to return home to the makeshift harbor community (assembled from old shipping containers) where he lives with his girlfriend, Karmann. But this is during the Watts Riots, and although his status as a chronicler of all things underground garners him free passage through the territories fiercely controlled by gangs, his trek is nevertheless diverted. Embarking on an exhilarating, dangerous, and at times paranormal journey, Monk crosses paths with a dizzying array of representatives from Los Angeles subcultures, including Chinese gangsters, graffiti bombers, witches, the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, and others. Graffiti Palace is the story of a city transmogrified by the upsurge of its citizens, and Monk is our tour guide, cataloging and preserving the communities that, though surreptitious and unseen, nevertheless formed the backbone of 1960s Los Angeles. With an astounding generosity of imagery and imagination, Graffiti Palace heralds the birth of a major voice in fiction. A. G. Lombardo sees the writings on our walls, and with Graffiti Palace he has provided an allegorical paean to a city in revolt.