ASIN: B00NPOSKYQ
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 267
The Odyssey recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Although originally written in heroic verse, it has been called the first novel because of its exciting use of narrative and the effective use of flashbacks to heighten the dramatic action. While The Iliad is a collection of mythical material that grew up about an event that seems actually to have occurred toward the end of the Mycenean era, The Odyssey is largely a collection of folktales, many of which are easily recognizable in the legends of other lands.We know very little about the author of The Odyssey. Scholars disagree on when Homer lived or when he might have written his works. No one, however, disputes the fact that The Odyssey arose from oral tradition. Stock phrases, types of episodes, and repeated phrases -- such as early, rose-fingered dawn -- bear the mark of epic ...
