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Achaeans (tribe)
Aeneid
Aeolus
Amphimedon
Archery
Author_Stephen V. Tracy
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Brief Encounter
Burial
Caesura
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Charybdis
Epic poetry
Epithet
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Eupeithes
Eurynome
Exemplum
Fairy tale
First-person narrative
Halitherses
Hesiod
Hexameter
His Family
Homer
Homeric simile
Hyperbole
Idomeneus
Imagery
Irony
Kleos
Laertes
Laertes (Hamlet)
Literature
Lotus-eaters
Man and Wife (novel)
Melantho
Menelaus
Mentes (King of the Taphians)
Milman Parry
Narrative
Nausicaa
Nickname
Odysseus
Odyssey
Olympos (novel)
On the Beach (novel)
Oral poetry
Peisistratos
Pheidon
Philoctetes
Poetry
Polyphemus
Precaution (novel)
Pylos
Richmond Lattimore
Simile
Sisyphus
Soliloquy
Supplication
Swineherd
Tantalus
Telemachus
The Swineherd
The Telling
The Various
Thesprotians
Tithonos
Trickster
Trojan War
Twelve Olympians
Virgil
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691014944
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Oct 1990
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Here Stephen Tracy offers a vivid, fast-paced narrative that serves as a reading guide to Homer's monumental epic. He not only provides translations of key passages and traces the evolution of major themes in the Odyssey, but also helps new readers to understand the artistry of one of the best tales ever told. Aimed at advanced readers as well, this book stresses an appreciation of how Homer has ordered his narrative, covering such topics as character interaction, family relationships, elements of poetic language, and the symbolic treatment of death, rebirth, growth, and knowledge. Given the controversy over the way the Odyssey was composed and handed down, Tracy concentrates on presenting the poem as a highly unified work. His analysis of the narrative structure reveals the epic to be arranged as a series of parallel journeys. The journey, seen here as a symbol of growth and self-knowledge, is among the major themes discussed in detail, along with the importance of women as overseers of life's journeys and the need for the sons of heroes to grow up worthy of their fathers.
