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Homer's Odyssey (BC Classic Library Edition) (Hardcover)
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Homer's Odyssey (BC Classic Library Edition) (Hardcover)
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Having spent ten years fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus embarks
on his journey back to Ithica. To get there he must deceive a giant
Cyclops, face Poseidon's wrath, escape cannibalism, defeat the
witch-goddess Circe, skirt the land of the Sirens, sail between a
six-headed monster and a raging whirlpool, and escape captivity on
the island of Calypso. But perhaps his biggest threat is his
prolonged absence from home, as 108 suitors are vying for his
wife's hand in marriage. Composed near the end of the eighth
century BC, The Odyssey was intended to be sung by an epic poet.
One of the most impressive elements of the text is that events
depend equally on the choices made by women and serfs as on the
actions of fighting men. The story has had a profound influence on
cultures around the world, so much so, that the word odyssey has
come to refer to an epic voyage in many languages. In this edition
of Samuel Butler's translation, the names of the gods and
characters have been restored from Latin to the original Greek.
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