Reading Homer’s Odyssey
Autor Kostas Myrsiadesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 apr 2019 – vârsta ani
Finalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section
Homer’s Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities and schools, and to be read and referred to by ordinary readers. Reading Homer’s Odyssey offers a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s themes that informs the non-specialist and engages the seasoned reader in new perspectives. Among the themes discussed are hospitality, survival, wealth, reputation and immortality, the Olympian gods, self-reliance and community, civility, behavior, etiquette and technology, ease, inactivity and stagnation, Penelope’s relationship with Odysseus, Telemachus’ journey, Odysseus’ rejection of Calypso’s offer of immortality, Odysseus’ lies, Homer’s use of the House of Atreus and other myths, the cinematic qualities of the epic’s structure, women’s role in the epic, and the Odyssey’s true ending. Footnotes clarify and elaborate upon myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Odyssey, in addition to the bibliographies that accompany each book’s commentary.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Homer’s Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities and schools, and to be read and referred to by ordinary readers. Reading Homer’s Odyssey offers a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s themes that informs the non-specialist and engages the seasoned reader in new perspectives. Among the themes discussed are hospitality, survival, wealth, reputation and immortality, the Olympian gods, self-reliance and community, civility, behavior, etiquette and technology, ease, inactivity and stagnation, Penelope’s relationship with Odysseus, Telemachus’ journey, Odysseus’ rejection of Calypso’s offer of immortality, Odysseus’ lies, Homer’s use of the House of Atreus and other myths, the cinematic qualities of the epic’s structure, women’s role in the epic, and the Odyssey’s true ending. Footnotes clarify and elaborate upon myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Odyssey, in addition to the bibliographies that accompany each book’s commentary.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781684481316
ISBN-10: 1684481317
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Bucknell University Press
Colecția Bucknell University Press
ISBN-10: 1684481317
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Bucknell University Press
Colecția Bucknell University Press
Notă biografică
DR. KOSTAS MYRSIADES is a professor emeritus of comparative and Greek literature and a distinguished translator and Neohellenist. He is the recipient of the Gold Medallion from the Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature (Athens, Greece) and the author of twenty books. He was also the editor of College Literature a quarterly of literary criticism, theory, and pedagogy.
Cuprins
Preface
I. From Ithaca to Wonderland
Chapter 1: Telemachus' Journey (Od.1-4)
Chapter 2: Odysseus from Calypso to the Phaeacians (Od.5-8)
Chapter 3: Odysseus' Wanderings (Od.9-12)
II. From Wonderland to Ithaca
Chapter 4: Odysseus and Telemachus at Eumaeus' Hut (Od.13-16)
Chapter 5: Odysseus and Telemachus Strategize at the Palace (Od.17-20)
Chapter 6: Revenge, Reunion, and Reconciliation (Od.21-24)
Afterword
Bibliography
I. From Ithaca to Wonderland
Chapter 1: Telemachus' Journey (Od.1-4)
Chapter 2: Odysseus from Calypso to the Phaeacians (Od.5-8)
Chapter 3: Odysseus' Wanderings (Od.9-12)
II. From Wonderland to Ithaca
Chapter 4: Odysseus and Telemachus at Eumaeus' Hut (Od.13-16)
Chapter 5: Odysseus and Telemachus Strategize at the Palace (Od.17-20)
Chapter 6: Revenge, Reunion, and Reconciliation (Od.21-24)
Afterword
Bibliography
Recenzii
Kostas Myrsiades’ remarkably accessible and lively commentary comes as a great boost to readers who approach the Odyssey with great interest but little background in the world of the epic and the techniques of Homer. This book serves as a kind of museum guide through each portion of the Odyssey, giving us the benefit of the author’s wealth of erudition and knowledge in readily understandable prose. Myrsiades not only explains the peculiar features of the narrative and content but also offers many helpful interpretive approaches, including some recent controversial suggestions, that have arisen from his decades of teaching this epic. This commentary will be especially helpful in giving high school and college teachers with little formal classical training the information and tools that will make them authoritative in the classroom. A pleasure to read.
"An eloquently erudite and insightful analysis of one of the world's most famous works of literature from Ancient Greece."
"Recommended."
"The book is a great pleasure to read....Reading Homer’s Odyssey is a book that does exactly what it promises: it helps its reader to read (and understand) the Odyssey. It will appeal to a broad readership as well as to scholars and students of Classics and other fields, and it may also be suggested as accompanying reading in Classical Civilization classes or similar courses."
Descriere
Reading Homer’s Odyssey is a book by book commentary on the epic’s major themes. Each of the epic’s 24 books are divided into sections to stress the length and the importance placed on specific topics and episodes. Footnotes are provided throughout to clarify and complete myths that Homer leaves unfinished, to explain certain terms and phrases, and to provide background information whenever necessary. Additionally, there is a bibliography on the Odyssey, as well as bibliographies that accompany each book’s commentary.