Odysseus: A Life - Hardcover

Beye, Charles Rowan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401300243 ISBN 13: 9781401300241

Publisher: Hyperion, 2004

Synopsis

From an acclaimed classicist comes a witty, unusual, and fascinating 'biography' of Homer's fictional Bronze Age hero, Odysseus

Everyone knows something about Odysseus: how he defeated the Trojans in a surprise attack with a massive wooden horse, wandered the Mediterranean seas for years trying to get home, confronted the Cyclops, and killed the suitors of his faithful wife Penelope back at his Ithaca palace. Odysseus turns up everywhere: Homer's epics The Iliad and The Odyssey, Tennyson's poem 'Ulysses' (the Roman name for Odysseus), Constantine Cavafy's Ithaca, and more. Even the Coen brothers based a film, O Brother Where Art Thou, on his voyage. But no one has chronicled Odysseus' life from start to finish--until now.

In this entertaining 'biography, ' Charles Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure, at the same time portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventuresome life, at times so remote, at times so immediate in the contemporary perspective.

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Review:

"A deep pleasure, entertaining, witty, informative, and full of pizzazz."

Synopsis:

Everyone knows something about Odysseus: how he defeated the Trojans in a surprise attack with a massive wooden horse, wandered the Mediterranean seas for years trying to get home and confronted the Cyclops. Odysseus turns up everywhere from Homer's original epics, Tennyson's poem "Ulysses" and Joyce's literary masterpiece of the same name, to the recent Coen brothers film O Brother Where Art Thou, which was based on his adventures. But no one has until now chronicled Odysseus' life from start to finish. In this entertaining "biography", Beye does just that.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1401300243
• ISBN 13: 9781401300241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220