Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey

A biography

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Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
Alberto Manguel
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Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey

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"The identity of the poet Homer will always remain a mystery, but there is little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature, feeding our imagination for over two and a half millennia. The Iliad and The Odyssey, with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War, brave Achilles, Ulysses and Penelope, the Sirens, the Cyclops, Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods, are familiar to most readers because they are so pervasive. From Plato to Virgil, Pope to Joyce, Dante to Wolfgang Petersen, the poems have been told and retold, interpreted and embellished. As Manguel writes, "In a very real sense, The Iliad and The Odyssey are familiar to us prior to opening the first page."" In this graceful and sweeping book, Alberto Manguel traces the lineage of the poems from their inception and first recording. He considers the original purpose of the poems, either as allegory of philosophical truth or as a record of historical truth, surveys the challenges the pagan Homer presented to the early Christian world, and shows how this "primordial spring without which there would have been no culture" spread after the Reformation. Following Homer through the greatest literature ever created, Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey above all delights in the poems themselves.

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Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey: A biography
2007, Atlantic Monthly, Atlantic

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New York

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Books The Shook The World

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Library of Congress
PA4037 .M3142 2007

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Open Library
OL20922534M
ISBN 10
1843544024
OCLC/WorldCat
163337258
Library Thing
4167007
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1344615

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