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1 online resource (482 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title Page; Title page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents; List of Maps and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Translator; Maps; Homeric Timeline; Introduction ; THE DIFFICULTY OF HOMER ; WHO WAS HOMER? ; THE TEXT OF HOMER ; THE ALEXANDRIAN VULGATE ; BEFORE AND AFTER THE VULGATE ; THE HOMERIC QUESTION ; THE ORAL-FORMULAIC THEORY |
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MILMAN PARRY AND ALBERT B. LORD THE ORAL STYLE ; HOMER AND THE ALPHABET ; THE INVENTION OF THE ALPHABET ; MENIN AEIDE THEA PELEIADEO AKHILEOS ; WHY HOMER IS IMPORTANT ; THE FIRST TEXT OF HOMER ; THE GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF ORAL SONG ; HOMER AND HISTORY ; GREEK HISTORY |
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SCHLIEMANN' S TROY WAS THERE A TROJAN WAR? ; THE HOMECOMING OF ODYSSEUS ; SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND ; NOSTOS ; THE FOLKTALE OF THE HOMECOMING HUSBAND ; THE MORAL ODYSSEY ; MYTHIC PATTERNS IN THE ODYSSEY ; THE SINGER SINGS ; TRANSLATION ISSUES |
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THE REPETITIVE STYLE GETTING USED TO HOMER'S WORLD ; ON THIS TRANSLATION ; TRANSLITERATION AND PRONUNCIATION OF NAMES ; Book 1. Telemachos in Ithaca ; Book 2. Telemachos Calls an Assembly ; Book 3. Telemachos in Pylos ; Book 4. Telemachos in Sparta ; Book 5. Odysseus and Kalypso |
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Book 6. Odysseus and Nausicaä Book 7. Odysseus in the Phaeacian Court ; Book 8. The Stranger in Town ; Book 9. Odysseus in the Cave of Cyclops ; Book 10. Odysseus and Kirkê ; Book 11. Odysseus in the Underworld ; Book 12. Odysseus on the Island of the Sun ; Book 13. Home at Last |
| Summary |
Poet and Homeric scholar Barry B. Powell offers a major new translation of this enduring epic poem |
| Notes |
Book 14. Odysseus in the Pig Herder's Hut |
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Epic poetry, Greek.
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Epic poetry, Classical.
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Epic poetry, Classical
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Epic poetry, Greek
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Epic poetry, Greek
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Epic poetry, Classical
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Poetry
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199360321 |
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0199360324 |
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