The Ulysses Voyage
The Ulysses Voyage

Author: Timothy Severin

Publisher: Random House (UK)

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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Retraces Ulysses' logical homeward route using a replica of a Bronze Age galley.

The Sea Voyage Narrative
The Sea Voyage Narrative

Author: Robert Foulke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1135366438

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From The Odyssey to Moby Dick to The Old Man and the Sea, the long tradition of sea voyage narratives is comprehensively explained here supported by discussions of key texts.

Homer's Secret Odyssey
Homer's Secret Odyssey

Author: Kenneth Wood

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-04-11

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0752463896

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Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was hidden in his stories of heroes and villains, gods and ghosts, monsters and witches. Research now reveals that at a time when the Greeks did not have a written script, Homer concealed an astonishing range of learning about calendar making and cycles of the sun, moon and planet Venus in the Odyssey, his epic of the Fall of Troy and the adventures of the warrior-king Odysseus.

Homer and the Odyssey
Homer and the Odyssey

Author: Suzanne Saïd

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011-09-22

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0199542848

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With an introduction to the oral tradition which lay at the source of the Homeric epics and a discussion on the reception of the Homeric poems in Antiquity, this volume explores the mysterious figure of Homer, an author about whom little is known. Ruth Webb's translation is a revised and much expanded version of the original French text.

The Odyssey
The Odyssey

Author: Homer

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9780472088546

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Translated into dactylic hexameter, this edition of the Odyssey recaptures the oral-formulaic experience as never before

DEMYSTIFYING THE ODYSSEY
DEMYSTIFYING THE ODYSSEY

Author: Zlatko Mandzuka

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1481790633

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The Odyssey is considered to be the most beautiful literary work of the Western civilization, and Homer the first and the greatest poet ever. The book Demystifying the Odyssey is interpreting Homer's epic in a unique and completely new way. For the first time in literature, this book explains the events and phenomena that Odysseus saw and experienced, and which were considered so far as a result of the Poet's rich imagination. So, this book reveals how Odysseus went to Hades kingdom of the dead souls; what are in reality Scylla and Charybdis; who were the sirens; how the Island of Aeolus', the ruler of the winds, actually floated; how Circa turned Odysseus's sailors into pigs and other. Besides that, this book also reveals the fallacy two and a half millennia long, dating back from the first historians Herodotus and Thucydides, according to which Odysseus was wandering the Mediterranean sea. It further provides numerous proofs that Homer's hero was actually wandering the Adriatic. For all those readers who are familiar with the ancient Greek literature this book will be great news and quite a surprise. On the other hand, for those who have not been quite aware of the old Greek world it will provide great knowledge on the first European civilization. In any case, this will surely be an interesting reading for all of them.

Understanding The Odyssey
Understanding The Odyssey

Author: Claudia Durst Johnson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2003-06-30

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 031303933X

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For thousands of years, The Odyssey has resonated throughout the Western world. Homer has been an original source of inspiration to writers, painters, sculptors, and filmmakers, as well as a vital source of information about the mythology, history, and culture of ancient Greece. This casebook uniquely blends commentary and primary documents, situating the epic within historical contexts that are important for students to understand. The literary analysis chapter is ideal for readers coming to The Odyssey for the first time, introducing the work with a chronology of events and identification of major characters and themes. Topical chapters carefully consider matters of mythology, geography, archeology, and class issues pertinent to The Odyssey. Excerpts from classical and scholarly sources, including Herodotus, Plato, Thucydides, and Bulfinch, help students understand the historical framework, and materials from government documents and newspaper accounts help students make connections betweenThe Odyssey's thematic ideas and current events, such as the September 11th attacks and the ongoing conflict in Ireland.