The Sea
Odysseus spends so much time sailing home that the sea really takes up a good chunk of his life. This is fitting, since the sea and its perils work muc...From Troy in Asia Minor across the islands of the Mediterranean Sea (near Italy) and back to Ithaka, Greece, sometime in the Bronze Age.
Much of the action in...First Person (Peripheral Narrator) or Third Person (Omniscient), depending on how technical you want to get; First Person (Central Narrator) is used in the parts t...
Epic Poetry; Folklore, Legend, and Mythology; Quest
Along with Homer’s Iliad, the Odyssey is one of the two great epics of ancient Greece....Serious, Humorous
Homer writes with a great sense of gravity that you would pretty much expect when reading about epic heroes and their long dangerous journeys...Clear, Poetic
OK, now we know what you’re thinking: how could we possibly think the language of the Odyssey is clear? When you start reading Homer..."The Odyssey" is a form of the hero (Odysseus’s) name and basically means "the story of Odysseus." The Odyssey has become so famous that the word "odyssey" has a place in the English l...
For a long time, some readers have felt that the ending of the Odyssey smells a little fishy. In fact, two scholars from ancient Alexandria (Aristarchus and Aristophanes – a different...
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