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The Odyssey Re-Formed

Book by Frederick Ahl, Hanna M. Roisman; Cornell University Press, 1996

Subjects:

Epic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Homer--Odyssey, Odysseus (Greek Mythology) In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Frederick Ahl and Hanna M. Roisman believe that contemporary readers who do not know ancient Greek can gain a sophisticated grasp of the Odyssey if they are aware of some of the issues that intrigue and puzzle the experts. They offer a challenging new reading of the epic which is directed to the ...
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Frederick Ahl and Hanna M. Roisman believe that contemporary readers who do not know ancient Greek can gain a sophisticated grasp of the Odyssey if they are aware of some of the issues that intrigue and puzzle the experts. They offer a challenging new reading of the epic which is directed to the general student of literature as well as to the classicist. The "Odyssey" Re-Formed offers a lively and detailed reading of the Odyssey, episode by episode, with particular attention paid to the manipulative power of its language and Homer's skill in using that power. The authors explore how myth is shaped for specific, rhetorical reasons and suggest ways in which the epic uses its audience's awareness of the varied pool of mythic traditions to give the Odyssey remarkable and subtle resonances that have profound poetic power.
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The Odyssey in Athens: Myths of Cultural Origins

Book by Erwin F. Cook; Cornell University Press, 1995

Subjects:

Athens (Greece)--Religious Life And Customs, Epic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Epic Poetry, Greek--Religious Aspects, Erechtheum (Athens, Greece), Homer--Knowledge--Athens (Greece), Homer--Odyssey, Mythology, Greek, In Literature, Odysseus (Greek Mythology) In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...as the Odyssey and to the authorial personality as Homer. Relatively...Prologue Homer conducts the initial exposition of the Odyssey with a series...prevent it. Homer prepares us to see the gods of the Odyssey in just...
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A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey

Book by Irene J. F. De Jong; Cambridge University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Epic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Homer--Odyssey, Narration (Rhetoric), Odysseus (Greek Mythology) In Literature, Rhetoric, Ancient

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Comprehensive commentaries on the Homeric texts abound, but this commentary concentrates on one major aspect of the Odyssey--its narrative art. The role of narrator and narratees, methods of characterization and scenery description, and the development of the plot are discussed. The study aims to ...
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Comprehensive commentaries on the Homeric texts abound, but this commentary concentrates on one major aspect of the Odyssey--its narrative art. The role of narrator and narratees, methods of characterization and scenery description, and the development of the plot are discussed. The study aims to enhance our understanding of this masterpiece of European literature. All Greek references are translated and technical terms are explained in a glossary. It is directed at students and scholars of Greek literature and comparative literature.
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Homeric Renaissance: The Odyssey of George Chapman

Book by Lord George Def.; Yale University Press, 1956

Subjects:

Chapman, George--1559?-1634, Homer--Odyssey

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...dedication of the Odyssey Chapman...gift than Homer, three thousand...Chapmans Homer , no study of the whole structure...meaning of his Odyssey and its relation...dedication to the Odyssey to esteem not as the least of your...Presents Homer three thousand...
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The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the Odyssey

Book by William G. Thalmann; Cornell University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Epic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Homer--Odyssey, Homer--Political And Social Views, Literature And Society--Greece, Odysseus (Greek Mythology) In Literature, Social Classes In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Odyssey, William G. Thalmann asserts, does not describe an actual historical society at any period, but gives a selective, idiosyncratic, and contradictory picture to serve ideological ends, representing rather than reproducing social reality. The Swineherd and the Bow is an ambitious attempt to ...
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The Odyssey, William G. Thalmann asserts, does not describe an actual historical society at any period, but gives a selective, idiosyncratic, and contradictory picture to serve ideological ends, representing rather than reproducing social reality. The Swineherd and the Bow is an ambitious attempt to apply literary and social science theory in order to reveal Homeric epic as a form of class discourse within the context of early Greek social and political development.
Drawing upon recent scholarship in archaeology and cultural anthropology, Thalmann considers the evolution of Greek culture up to the formation of the polis in the late eighth century B.C. He demonstrates that Greek society was already stratified well before that date and that the distinction between an elite and other classes was well developed.
Thalmann concentrates on the representation of slaves and on the dynamics of competition and family structure in the contest of the bow to interpret the Odyssey -- and, implicitly, epic poetry generally -- as an intervention in the conflicts that surrounded the birth of the polis. In the interests of the aristocracy, the poem appropriates a traditional cultural paradigm, enshrined in the story of the Hero's return. The distortions of dark age reality, he maintains, should form the basis of an historicizing reading of the poem.
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Creolizing Homer for the Stage: Walcott's the Odyssey

Journal article by Robert D. Hamner; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 47, 2001

Subjects:

Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Creoles--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Epic poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Homer--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Odyssey: A Stage Version (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Theater--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Walcott, Derek--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Creolizing Homer for the stage: Walcotts The Odyssey by Robert D. Hamner...Modern Age? Transplanting Homer into Derek Walcotts The Odyssey: A Stage Version." The...Rouse, W.H.D., trans. Homer: The Odyssey. New York: Mentor, 1937...
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The Preservation of Homeric Tradition: Heroic Re-performance in the 'Republic' and the 'Odyssey.'

Journal article by Richard J. Klonoski; CLIO, Vol. 22, 1993

Subjects:

Epic poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Homer--Influence, Odyssey (Poem)--Influence, Plato--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Republic (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...12) in the tradition of Homer, of key moments in the Odyssey. It is a commonplace to...singer of his own song in the Odyssey. Homer reminds us that Odysseus...the original Greek are to Homer, The Odyssey, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Harvard...
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The Fall of Troy and the Slaughter of the Suitors: Ultimate Symbolic Correspondence in the Odyssey

Journal article by Thomas Dilworth; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 27, 1994

Subjects:

Odyssey (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...war. Neither Homer nor his audience...imaginatively divorced the epics from the...accomplishment of the Odyssey is, moreover...1967. 1-16. Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Walter...Allegory in the Odyssey. Amsterdam...Scully, Stephen. Homer and the Sacred...
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Keats's on First Looking into Chapman's Homer

Journal article by Bernhard Frank; The Explicator, Vol. 42, 1983

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...First Looking into Chapmans Homer", Miriam Allott notes that "the creative imagination as golden...words, both Homers Iliad and Odyssey. Since it is Keats who felt...as well as with the hero of the Odyssey. (An incidental irony is set...
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Platonic Entanglements

Journal article by Denise Schaeffer, Mary P. Nichols; Polity, Vol. 35, 2003

Subjects:

Plato's Democratic Entanglements (Book)--Reviews, Ruling Passion: The Erotics of Statecraft in Platonic Political Philosophy (Book)--Reviews, Socratic Citizenship (Book)--Reviews, The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return (Book)--Reviews, The Platonic Political Art: A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...according to Deneen, as Homers Odyssey. There Homer presents Odysseus as the exemplar both of the wanderer...is not entirely resolved by the Odyssey--for example, Tiresias predicts...wandering again--demonstrates that Homer did not "succumb too easily...

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Anon(ymous): An Adaptation of the Odyssey

Magazine article by Naomi Iizuka; American Theatre, Vol. 24, February 2007

Subjects:

Dramatists--Interviews, Papatola, Dominic P.--Interviews, Playwrights--Interviews, The Odyssey (Play)

Collections: Entire Library

...that the play stands on its own. If you know The Odyssey, then your experience of the play will be enriched. But if you only vaguely remember...me. Which of the characters youve borrowed from Homer do you think make especially effective contemporary...
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The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer: The Timeless Epics of Homer-Memorably Explored in 24 Recorded Lectures

Magazine article; National Review, Vol. 56, May 17, 2004

Subjects:

Greek literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer: The Timeless Epics of Homer...lectures on the Iliad and the Odyssey,you will come away...so many readers of Homer. Professor Vandiver...Achilles and Priam The Odyssey of Homer (12 lectures) Heroes...
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Homer: The Blind Bard

Magazine article by Rachelle Doorley, Judith King; School Arts, Vol. 104, January 2005

Subjects:

Greek sculpture--Influence, Homer--Appreciation, Homer--Portrayals, Roman sculpture--Appreciation, Roman sculpture--Works, Sculpture, Greek--Influence, Sculpture, Roman--Appreciation, Sculpture, Roman--Works

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Judith King Homer, the legendary Greek...Iliad and The Odyssey, is sometimes...evidence that Homer was blind, some...Demodocus in The Odyssey might have been...org/19300/data/homer.htm (Homers The Iliad and The Odyssey for children...
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Homer & the Power of Men That Have Chests

Magazine article by Christopher B. Nelson; New Criterion, Vol. 22, November 2003

Subjects:

Greek poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Homer--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...with chests. So the Iliad, and, later, the Odyssey form a good beginning to philosophy; they...aspects of your nature on your first day at the college--aspects that often function independently...about this in your freshman year, first in Homer, then in Herodotus and Sophocles, Plato...
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The Odyssey

Magazine article by Alyssa Katz; The Nation, Vol. 264, June 9, 1997

Subjects:

Television programs, Television programs--Television program reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...might even be worth watching. The curious who caught the Francis Ford Coppola--produced miniseries The Odyssey--"Based on the Epic Poem by Homer"--saw something fans of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess have enjoyed for...

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Ice Hockey: GO GIANTS; THE Daily Mirror-Sponsored Coors Belfast Giants Take to the Ice Tonight in a Potential League Title Decider. Face-Off against Cardiff Is at 7pm at the Odyssey

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), February 22, 2006

Subjects:

Hockey, Odyssey (Homer) (Poem)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Face-Off against Cardiff Is at 7pm at the Odyssey. Byline: By MIRROR REPORTER...drive their 4,000 fans wild at the Odyssey tonight by clinching the Elite...hosting the Newcastle Vipers in the Odyssey in September - and a 1-0 win was...
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CULTURE: Malachi's Sparse Odyssey; Malachi Bogdanov Talks to Terry Grimley about His New Take on Homer

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 24, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...years, is introducing Homer to James Bond in...How do you convert the huge, echoey foyer...adaptation of Homers Odyssey, called From Ithaca...contemporary take on Homer with a nod, as its...Bond. "When I read The Odyssey for the first time...
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From the 'Odyssey' to Surfing the Web, the Rewards of Travel

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, July 9, 2000

Subjects:

Pound, Ezra

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

From the Odyssey to surfing the Web, the rewards of travel...arts. More specifically, Homer and the personal computer...that he could detect on the page. He was reviewing a new printing of Chapmans "Homer," his wife "reading it to...
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Review: Theatrical Oddity; THE ODYSSEY Everyman Theatre

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), March 24, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...mox to you, youd be right. Hijacking the Odyssey like this is like turning Hamlet into a play about care in the community. Open the programme, and you...is more interested in David Farr than in Homer. Robert Bowmans Odysseus is left earnestly...
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The Homer Odyssey; Cartoon Captain Sutton Beaming Again as Tiger Finds His Focus, Totally

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 19, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

The Homer Odyssey; Cartoon Captain Sutton Beaming...in similar circumstances of the great Homer Simpson, a man to whom Hal...desperation: Hey, Hal!, came the bawl. This isnt about you! But Hal, like Homer, has a certain unsinkable...

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Homer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...attributed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. They are...assign the Odyssey to a poet...slightly after the author of...Legends about Homer were numerous...Companion to Homer (1962, repr...R. Beye, The Iliad, the Odyssey and the Epic...
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Odyssey

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

ODYSSEY od ise: see Homer . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Greek Literature, Ancient

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Writings The earliest extant European literary works are the Iliad and the Odyssey, both written in ancient Greek probably before 700 b.c., and attributed to Homer . Among other early epic poems, most of which have perished, those of Hesiod...
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Epic

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...conquering and expanding; such is the foundation of the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, of the Iliad and the Odyssey of the Greek Homer, and of the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. Literary, or secondary, epics, written in conscious imitation of earlier...
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Lang, Andrew

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...He is known for his prose translations of the Odyssey (with S. H. Butcher, 1879), and the Iliad (with Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers, 1883), and for his defense of the unity of Homer in The World of Homer (1910). With his wife...

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