Homer The Odyssey
A Prose Translation
Seiten
2022
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7368-6 (ISBN)
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7368-6 (ISBN)
This is a complete translation into contemporary English of the ancient Greek epic by Homer. The translation by Charles Underwood is presented in prose to emphasize the distinctive narrative qualities that illustrate Homer’s mastery of stirring language and evocative storytelling.
The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic about the challenges and hardships Odysseus faces in his rambling ten-year journey homeward after the Trojan War and in the days following his arrival on the island of Ithaka, his homeland. Depicting his own and others’ social displacement after the war, and describing his successive challenges against human, natural and supernatural adversaries, the epic dramatizes his problematic process of healing from the trauma of war and his slow, arduous attempt to recover a sense of personal identity among his people, his wife, his son, and others who have longed for his return. In depicting the struggles of Odysseus, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemakhos, as well as key minor characters such as the slaves Eurykleia and Eumaios, in response to their social displacement, The Odyssey offers us literature’s first full-length narrative focused on the everyday heroism of ordinary human beings in the face of implacable misfortune and adversity.
The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic about the challenges and hardships Odysseus faces in his rambling ten-year journey homeward after the Trojan War and in the days following his arrival on the island of Ithaka, his homeland. Depicting his own and others’ social displacement after the war, and describing his successive challenges against human, natural and supernatural adversaries, the epic dramatizes his problematic process of healing from the trauma of war and his slow, arduous attempt to recover a sense of personal identity among his people, his wife, his son, and others who have longed for his return. In depicting the struggles of Odysseus, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemakhos, as well as key minor characters such as the slaves Eurykleia and Eumaios, in response to their social displacement, The Odyssey offers us literature’s first full-length narrative focused on the everyday heroism of ordinary human beings in the face of implacable misfortune and adversity.
Charles Underwood is an anthropologist and classical scholar.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Book I: Uninvited Guests
Book II: Disorder in the Court
Book III: The Old Horseman
Book IV: The Thread of Fortune
Book V: The Island
Book VI: Nausikaa
Book VII: The Phaiakians
Book VIII: Telling Moments
Book IX: The Wandering Eye
Book X: Kirke
Book XI: Shadows
Book XII: Hazards
Book XIII: Ithaka
Book XIV: The Keeper of Pigs
Book XV: Telemakhos Returns
Book XVI: Plans
Book XVII: Stranger in the House
Book XVIII: Almost Home
Book XIX: Face to Face
Book XX: Hard Words
Book XXI: The Contest
Book XXII: Slaughterhouse
Book XXIII: Give and Take
Book XIV Ends and Means
About the Translator
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2022 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Charles Underwood |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 417 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7618-7368-6 / 0761873686 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7618-7368-6 / 9780761873686 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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