Odysseus: A Life (Hardback)
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Short Description for Odysseus In this entertaining "biography," Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure, at the same time portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventurous life, at times remote and at times immediate in the contemporary perspective.
Full description- Publisher: Hyperion
- Published: 01 June 2004
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Myth & Legend Told As Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781401300241 ISBN 10: 1401300243
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Full description for Odysseus
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. Even the Coen brothers based a film, O Brother Where Art Thou, on his voyage. But no one has chronicled Odysseus' life from start to finish-until now. In this entertaining 'biography, ' Charles Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure, at the same time portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventuresome life, at times so remote, at times so immediate in the contemporary perspective
