The Odyssey / Homer
By: Homer [Author]
Language: English Publisher: London : Vivi Books, 2014Edition: Complete and unabridgedDescription: 356 pages; 19 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume ISBN: 9788182528970Uniform titles: Odyssey English Subject(s): Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Fiction | Mythology, Greek -- Fiction | Trojan War -- Fiction | Troy (Extinct city) -- Fiction. DDC classification: Fic H7529 Summary: From an acclaimed classicist comes a witty, unusual, and fascinating 'biography' of Homer's fictional Bronze Age hero, Odysseus veryone knows something about Odysseus: how he defeated the Trojans in a surprise attack with a massive wooden horse, wandered the Mediterranean seas for years trying to get home, confronted the Cyclops, and killed the suitors of his faithful wife Penelope back at his Ithaca palace. Odysseus turns up everywhere: Homer's epics The Iliad and The Odyssey, Tennyson's poem 'Ulysses' (the Roman name for Odysseus), Constantine Cavafy's Ithaca, and more.| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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From an acclaimed classicist comes a witty, unusual, and fascinating 'biography' of Homer's fictional Bronze Age hero, Odysseus veryone knows something about Odysseus: how he defeated the Trojans in a surprise attack with a massive wooden horse, wandered the Mediterranean seas for years trying to get home, confronted the Cyclops, and killed the suitors of his faithful wife Penelope back at his Ithaca palace. Odysseus turns up everywhere: Homer's epics The Iliad and The Odyssey, Tennyson's poem 'Ulysses' (the Roman name for Odysseus), Constantine Cavafy's Ithaca, and more.
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