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The Odyssey, by Homer
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The Cambridge Companion to Homer by Robert Fowler (Editor)Publication Date: 2004
The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration.
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The Odyssey by Stephen Mitchell (Translator); HomerPublication Date: 2014
The Odyssey is the original hero's journey, an epic voyage into the unknown, and has inspired other creative work for millennia. With its consummately modern hero, full of guile and wit, always prepared to reinvent himself in order to realize his heart’s desire—to return to his home and family after ten years of war—the Odyssey now speaks to us again across 2,600 years. In words of great poetic power, this translation brings Odysseus and his adventures to life as never before.
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Homer's the Odyssey by Leland RykenPublication Date: 2013
Guides readers through Homer's The Odyssey and highlights the universal theme of longing for redemption as displayed in this epic tale of a man trying to find his way home. Part of the Christian Guides to the Classics series.
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Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey by Richard HeitmanPublication Date: 2008
Taking Her Seriously is a reevaluation of Penelope, one of the most universally admired female characters in Western classical literature. Casting her in a new light, Richard Heitman emphasizes the courage, steadfastness, and integrity of this iconic figure while she faces potentially tragic decisions. Homer's treatment of events in Ithaca and the motivations of Penelope throughout the denser books of the Odyssey reveals a complicated, serious, independent, and insightful thinker whose actions are crucial to guaranteeing the well-being of her home and a safe future for her son, and for Odysseus as well.
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Homer's Odyssey by Homer, George Chapman (Translator), Gordon Kendal (Editor)Publication Date: 2016
This edition of the Odyssey, a companion to Robert Miola’s edition of the Iliad, aims to bring Chapman’s rendering alive for the modern reader. Its literary, philosophical, and religious context is explained in an Introduction and in footnotes, and side- and end-glosses clarify Chapman’s English
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Homer by Jasper GriffinPublication Date: 2003
This handy guide will introduce students to a text that has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years. It gives readers a summary of The Odyssey and examines its structure. The values and techniques of the poem are clearly outlined, as are the reasons for its longstanding appeal.
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Reading Homer's Odyssey by Kostas MyrsiadesPublication Date: 2019
Reading Homer's Odyssey offers a book-by-book commentary on the epic's themes that informs the non-specialist and engages the seasoned reader in new perspectives.
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The Odyssey of Political Theory by Patrick J. DeneenPublication Date: 2003
This path-breaking and eloquent analysis of The Odyssey, and the way it has been interpreted by political philosophers throughout the centuries, has dramatic implications for the current state of political thought. This important book offers readers original insights into The Odyssey and it provides a new understanding of the classic works of Plato, Rousseau, Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno. \
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