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Homer and the Odyssey (Hardcover)
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Homer and the Odyssey (Hardcover)
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Who was Homer? This book takes us beyond the legends of the blind
bard or the wandering poet to explore an author about whom nothing
is known, except for his works. It offers a reading of the ancient
biographies as clues to the reception of the Homeric poems in
Antiquity and provides an introduction to the oral tradition which
lay at the source of the Homeric epics. Above all, it takes us into
the world of the Odyssey, a world that lies between history and
fiction. It guides the reader through a poem which rivals the
modern novel in its complexity, demonstrating the unity of the poem
as a whole. It defines the many and varied figures of otherness by
which the Greeks of the archaic period defined themselves and
underlines the values promoted by the poem's depictions of men,
women, and gods. Finally, it asks why, throughout the centuries
from Homer to Kazantzakis and Joyce, the hero who never forgets his
homeland and dreams constantly of return has never ceased to be the
incarnation of what it is to be human.
This translation is a revised and much expanded version of the
original French text, and includes a new chapter on the
representation of women in the Odyssey and an updated bibliography.
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