Odyssey: 2 (Wishbone Classics S.) - Softcover

Homer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061064130 ISBN 13: 9780061064135

Publisher: HarperCollins,Australia, 1996

Synopsis

By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, Polyphemus the Cyclops; he visits the underworld; he faces the terrible monsters Scylla and Charybdis; he extricates himself from the charms of Circe and Calypso. After these and numerous other legendary encounters he finally reaches home, where, disguised as a beggar, he begins to plan revenge on the suitors who have for years been besieging Penelope and feasting on his own meat and wine with insolent impunity.

About this title

About the Author:

Although recognized as one of the greatest ancient Greek poets, the life and figure of Homer remains shrouded in mystery. Credited with the authorship of the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, Homer, if he existed, is believed to have lived during the ninth century BC, and has been identified variously as a Babylonian, an Ithacan, or an Ionian. Regardless of his citizenship, Homer's poems and speeches played a key role in shaping Greek culture, and Homeric studies remains one of the oldest continuous areas of scholarship, reaching from antiquity through to modern times.

Synopsis:

Share the adventures of Odysseus, the most heroic of the ancient Greek warriors, as he returns home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins,Australia
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0061064130
• ISBN 13: 9780061064135
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 123