The Odyssey of Homer

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• Sense of Homer

  To anyone who has acquired a taste for the poetry of Pope, to anybody with a taste for English poetry, the possibility of possessing parts at least of the poem known as the Odyssey and commonly attributed to Homer is given as immediately as to Keats ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

• Bringing Homer Home

  It is a cliché that Western literature begins with the poems of Homer. The well-informed know that the truth is rather more complex: the Iliad and Odyssey have indeed been at the root of the literature and the culture of Europe and the West, but thei ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

6 Reviews

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  This epic is epic. I buy it from garage sale mainly because it is very cheap but very small and elegant. Scarlet hardcover, with golden paper edge, bible feel, if I have a priest robe, I can even go preaching with this book in my hand. I've already known most of the stories in it, hope I can find so ... (continue)

  This epic is epic. I buy it from garage sale mainly because it is very cheap but very small and elegant. Scarlet hardcover, with golden paper edge, bible feel, if I have a priest robe, I can even go preaching with this book in my hand. I've already known most of the stories in it, hope I can find some time to read them as a whole.

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  Z.Z said on Nov 30, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Amazing read

  I had to read this book for English class and (of course) I did it last minute but still loved every minute of it! I LOVE The Odyssey! Greek mythology is the bomb and I love Odysseus' journey! I loved everything about this book and Greek culture in general; the names, the gods and goddesses and h ... (continue)

  I had to read this book for English class and (of course) I did it last minute but still loved every minute of it! I LOVE The Odyssey! Greek mythology is the bomb and I love Odysseus' journey! I loved everything about this book and Greek culture in general; the names, the gods and goddesses and how they interfere in the mortals lives, the humorous parts, the heartbreaking separation of husband and wife and father and son, and the eventual reunion. It was so sweet when Penelope realized it really was Odysseus in front of her and I was like "heck yeah!" when the blood bath in the end occurred, I was totally cheering on Odysseus and Telemachus! I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone!

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  star_bound said on Sep 14, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• Finally I've found a prose english translation.

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  Viollka said on Jun 2, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Praise Athena! She's the only deity for me after reading this book.

  Now was it his mother or his father that Odysseus goes to visit in...Hell? My memory is very bad but I think I was unfairly attacked by a professor because of this detail. I think it was his mother?

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  DustMoteVII said on Mar 23, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Read during my freshman year of high school.

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  Batona said on Mar 24, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Read this immediately after the Iliad and found it much easier going. Some of the battle scenes in the Iliad got more than a little tedious. But I got rid of a number of preconceptions about the books that I've had for many years.

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  PossMan said on Sep 13, 2006 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 392 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1587156741
• ISBN-13: 9781587156748
• Publisher: Borgo Press
• Pub date: May 01, 2002
• Dimensions: 1490 mm x 1013 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding, Unbound and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, llibres en català, Libri Italiani

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