The Odyssey

ISBN-13: 9780451474339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 360 str.

Homer; W. H. D. Rouse; Deborah Steiner

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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