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The Odyssey Mass Market Paperback – Special Edition, July 1 2005

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The epic tale of Odysseus' extraordinary ten-year voyage home after the Trojan War.

The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.

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-A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
-A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
-An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
-Detailed explanatory notes
-Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work
-Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
-A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

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Two epic poems are attributed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. They are composed in a literary type of Greek, Ionic in basis with Aeolic admixtures. Ranked among the great works of Western literature, these two poems together constitute the prototype for all subsequent Western epic poetry. Modern scholars are generally agreed that there was a poet named Homer who lived before 700 B.C., probably in Asia Minor.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1416500367
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1 2005
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Enriched Classic
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781416500360
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1416500360
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 204 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.64 x 2.54 x 17.15 cm
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1050L
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Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives.

He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.

In The Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope.

We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time.

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  • Deepak
    5.0 out of 5 stars Waiting for Nolan's version of this Epic
    Reviewed in India on July 22, 2025
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    Iam writing this after completing two chapters. This is an absolute classic that everyone must read it once in their lifetime. Paper quality is good and gives authentic feel of bookreading. Loved it
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    Reviewed in India on July 22, 2025
    Iam writing this after completing two chapters. This is an absolute classic that everyone must read it once in their lifetime. Paper quality is good and gives authentic feel of bookreading. Loved it
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  • Peter
    5.0 out of 5 stars Odyssey: a good idea of human beings' life, feelings and habits in the centuries before Christ.
    Reviewed in Germany on July 14, 2020
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    Written by Homer, which in Ancient Greek means "the man who cannot see", The Odyssey is one of the best books written in ancient times, and is a mixture of Mythology and History. Based on an historical event, such as the war between the Greeks and the city of Troy, The Odyssey is about the journey which Ulysses underwent to go back from Troy to his island, Ithaca, where his wife and family was waiting for him.
    The war against Troy took 10 years to end, and Ulysses will need another ten years to go back home in a series of adventures. The Book provides a good idea of human beings' life, feelings and habits in the centuries before Christ.
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  • ayhan kahraman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Kitap
    Reviewed in Turkey on April 21, 2021
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    Beklediğim gibi....
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  • M Peter
    5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Read
    Reviewed in Australia on October 3, 2024
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    Interesting read
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  • Asko Korpela
    5.0 out of 5 stars A confusing reader's experience
    Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2016
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    Homer's Odysseus is a vitally basic work of world literature, but oh, so confusing as reading experience. Over ten years ago I read a poem-version Finnish translversi of it in a reading group. Notes from that and these are like made from two different books. In the Finnish translation Greek-derived names of people and gods has been used, here instead Latin-based. This in itself is confusing for the inconvenience, until you get used to it. Another difference is thitinstead verse translation and this outspoken, yet somehow poetic-bound unusual prose text.
    The work and activity, the general course of events is quite clear, as long as it is kept in mind that they are not told as events as they occur, but afterwardas as a travel account. Here a terrible number of people and gods are included. Only a limited number of activities and a vague impression of the importance of things fasten in mind. When reading you cannot avoid comparing life now and then. Odyssian life seems to be concentrated to more essential things than is our life. Just eating, drinking, dressing, and homemaking get more attention than in our life. All the action is in every respect more grandiose than it is now. People are gathered in big numbers. Whole pigs will be eaten, a lot of washing, rough behavior. Fighting for petty reasons, ruthless killing, but also generous treating: clothes, lavish gifts are given.
    The difference in the relationship between man and god is really great. This of course, because of the fundamental difference between the polytheistic and monotheistic religions. We have only one God who is behind everything and decides everything perfectly. Ulysse's gods are many and they are dedicated to specific issues. There are contradictions between the gods and not just between people and in human relations to the gods. But the gods are also closer to the people and behave like people. While here man is created as image of God, Odyssian gods are vice versa enlarged pictures of man.
    Are there any books to which this unique story could be compared? Yes, to similar works of polytheistic worldview, such as the Kalevala, which also describes a journey, Sampo robbery and acquiring it back to its original use as the source of general well-being. Because the world of the Kalevala is more human and refined, it is in my eyes more appealing than the heights of mountains and jagged environments of Odyssean world.
    Although the plot is clear and justified, a question remains: Why does not Odysseus straight away go to meet Penelope? So would a hero of our world undoubtedly have done.
    However, no way avoiding full five stars, mainly for the clarity and great features of the plot.
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