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The Making of the Odyssey (Hardcover)
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The Making of the Odyssey (Hardcover)
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The poet of the Odyssey was a seriously flawed genius. He had a
wonderfully inventive imagination, a gift for pictorial detail and
for introducing naturalistic elements into epic dialogue, and a
grand architectural plan for the poem. He was also a slapdash
artist, often copying verses from the Iliad or from himself without
close attention to their suitability. With various possible ways of
telling the story bubbling up in his mind, he creates a narrative
marked by constant inconsistency of detail. He is a fluent composer
who delights in prolonging his tale with subsidiary episodes, yet
his deployment of the epic language is often inept and sometimes
simply unintelligible. The Making of the Odyssey is a penetrating
study of the background, composition, and artistry of the Homeric
Odyssey. Martin West places the poem in its late seventh-century
context in relation to the Iliad and other poetry of the time. He
also investigates the traditions that lie behind it: the origins of
the figure of Odysseus, and folk tales such as those of the
One-eyed Ogre and the Husband's Return.
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