Author: Alfred Heubeck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198147473
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Author: Alfred Heubeck
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198721444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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This three volume commentary also includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey, its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text.

Author: Alfred Heubeck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198149538
Category : Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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In this volume the commentary by Russo, Fernandez-Galiano, and Huebeck is preceded by introductions dealing with the books in question. For this English version the introduction and commentary have been thoroughly revised and adapted to the text of T. W. Allen in the Oxford Classical Texts series. There is also a consolidated index at the end of this volume.

Author: Denton Jaques Snider
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Author: Homer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198788805
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time.

Author: Alfred Heubeck
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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This three volume commentary also includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey, its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text.

Author: Homer
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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The Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes the Iliad. It was originally written in ancient Greek, utilizing a dactylic hexameter rhyme scheme. Although this rhyme scheme sounds beautiful in its native language, in modern English it can sound awkward and, as Eric McMillan humorously describes it, resembles “pumpkins rolling on a barn floor.” William Cullen Bryant avoided this problem by composing his translation in blank verse, a rhyme scheme that sounds natural in English. This epic poem follows Ulysses, one of the Greek leaders that brought an end to the ten-year-long Trojan war. Longing for home, he travels across the Mediterranean Sea to return to his kingdom in Ithaca; unfortunately, our hero manages to anger Neptune, the god of the sea, making his trip home agonizingly slow and extremely dangerous. While Ulysses is trying to return home, his family in Ithaca is also in danger. Suitors have traveled to the home of Ulysses to marry his wife, Penelope, believing that her husband did not survive the war. These men are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author: Alfred Heubeck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198140375
Category : Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Homer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521859832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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The first self-contained edition and commentary on Books XVII and XVIII, ideal for use with upper-level undergraduate students.

Author: Homer
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019084861
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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