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Odyssey Book Review. The original author, Homer, was a Greek poet who wrote
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The original author, Homer, was a Greek poet who wrote epic poems. Not much is known about Homer, but there are different theories of what Homer seems to be. Some believe he was not even a real person, some think that it was a group of people that made up the poems, some think he was a woman, and according to the legend, he was a blind, poor poet who lived in Ionia. The author of this specific translated version, Albert Cook, has been a Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Classics at Brown University since 1978. He was educated at Harvard and is an author, poet, and playwright. He is the author of The Classic Line: A Study of Epic Poetry, Myth and Language, and Soundings: On Shakespeare, Modern Poetry, Plato, and Other Subjects.
It’s been ten years since the end of the Trojan War, and the Greek hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom and family in Ithaca. A large and unruly crowd of suitors has overrun Odysseus’s palace and stolen his land carry on to court his wife, Penelope, who has been very faithful to Odysseus. Odysseus’ son, Prince Telemachus, desperately wants to throw the suitors out, but lacks the confidence and experience to do so. Antinous, one of the suitors, plans to assassinate Telemachus, eliminating the only opposition to their authority over the palace. However, unknown to the suitors, Odysseus is still alive and slowly working his way back to his kingdom.
Calypso, the beautiful nymph, has imprisoned Odysseus on her island, Ogygia. Although longing to return to his wife and son, Odysseus lacks the ships and the crew to help him escape. While the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus discuss Odysseus’s future, Athena decides to help Telemachus. Disguised as a friend of Laertes, Telemachus’s grandfather, she convinces him to call a meeting at which he criticizes the suitors and also prepares him to travel to Pylos and Sparta where he is informed that his father is alive and trapped by Calypso by the...
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