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    A Study Guide for Homer's Odyssey
    A Study Guide for Homer's Odyssey
    A Study Guide for Homer's Odyssey
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    A Study Guide for Homer's Odyssey

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    A Study Guide for Homer's "Odyssey," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Epics for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Epics for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9781535829861
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      Odyssey

      Homer

      C. 700 BCE

      Introduction

      Homer's Odyssey is generally considered to be the sequel to the Iliad. Unlike many sequels in the modern era, however, the Odyssey actually seems to be an improvement, in some respects, on the original and is quite capable of standing as an independent work.

      Odysseia, which has been this poem's name in Greek since Herodotus called it that in the fifth century BCE, means simply the story of Odysseus. That story refers to the ten-year-long return trip of Odysseus from Troy to his island home of Ithaca, off the west coast of Greece. Because the epic pertains to this long journey, the term odyssey has since come to mean any significant and difficult journey.

      For more than fifteen hundred years, the Iliad and the Odyssey set the western standard by which epic poetry was judged. The epic form in poetry seemed to die out with Milton's Paradise Lost, but the story of Odysseus has remained a perennial favorite. Robert Fagles's translation of

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