The Odyssey: Selections

ISBN-13: 9781554814268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

Homer; Ian Johnston; Ian Johnston

Spis treści

• Introduction
• The Gods
• Odysseus
• A Note on Poetic Form and on the Translation
• Map
• The Odyssey
• Book One: Athena Visits Ithaca
• Book Two: Telemachus Prepares for His Voyage
• Book Three: Telemachus Visits Nestor in Pylos
• Book Four: The Suitors Plan to Kill Telemachus
• Book Five: Odysseus Leaves Calypso's Island
• Book Six: Odysseus and Nausicaa
• Book Seven: Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous in Phaeacia
• Book Eight: Odysseus is Entertained in Phaeacia
• Book Nine: Ismarus, the Lotus Eaters, and the Cyclops
• Book Ten: Aeolus, the Laestrygonians, and Circe
• Book Eleven: Odysseus Meets the Shades of the Dead
• Book Twelve: The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, the Cattle of the Sun
• Book Thirteen: Odysseus Leaves Phaeacia and Reaches Ithaca
• Book Fourteen: Odysseus Meets Eumaeus
• Book Fifteen: Telemachus Returns to Ithaca
• Book Sixteen: Odysseus Reveals Himself to Telemachus
• Book Seventeen: Odysseus Goes to the Palace as a Beggar
• Book Eighteen: Odysseus and Irus the Beggar
• Book Nineteen: Eurycleia Recognizes Odysseus
• Book Twenty: Odysseus Prepares for his Revenge
• Book Twenty-One: The Contest with Odysseus's Bow
• Book Twenty-Two: The Killing of the Suitors
• Book Twenty-Three: Odysseus and Penelope
• Book Twenty-Four: Zeus and Athena End the Fighting
• In Context
• Literary Contexts from Xenophanes, Fragments (c. fifth century bce)
• from Pindar, Nemean 7 (c. fifth century bce)
• from Plato, The Republic (c. 380 bce)
• from Aristotle, Poetics (c. 335 bce)
• from Longinus?, On the Sublime (c. 1st century ce)
• from Demetrius?, On Style (c. 1st century ce)
• The Odyssey in Ancient Art
• Maps
• Glossary