{"product_id":"reading-homers-odyssey-paperback-softback-9781684481361","title":"Reading Homer's Odyssey (Paperback \/ softback) 9781684481361","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReading Homer's Odyssey\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKostas Myrsiades (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781684481361\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 April 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e364 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.517 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e Kostas Myrsiades' remarkably accessible and lively commentary comes as a great boost to readers who approach the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e with great interest but little background in the world of the epic and the techniques of Homer. This book serves as a kind of museum guide through each portion of the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, giving us the benefit of the author's wealth of erudition and knowledge in readily understandable prose. Myrsiades not only explains the peculiar features of the narrative and content but also offers many helpful interpretive approaches, including some recent controversial suggestions, that have arisen from his decades of teaching this epic. This commentary will be especially helpful in giving high school and college teachers with little formal classical training the information and tools that will make them authoritative in the classroom. A pleasure to read.\u003c\/div\u003e— Scott Richardson, Professor of Classics, St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"An eloquently erudite and insightful analysis of one of the world's most famous works of literature from Ancient Greece.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Midwest Book Review\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Recommended.\" \u003c\/div\u003e— Choice\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"The book is a great pleasure to read....\u003ci\u003eReading Homer's Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that does exactly what it promises: it helps its reader to read (and understand) the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey.\u003c\/i\u003e It will appeal to a broad readership as well as to scholars and students of Classics and other fields, and it may also be suggested as accompanying reading in Classical Civilization classes or similar courses.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Bryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Recommended.\" \u003c\/div\u003e— Choice\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"The book is a great pleasure to read....\u003ci\u003eReading Homer's Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that does exactly what it promises: it helps its reader to read (and understand) the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey.\u003c\/i\u003e It will appeal to a broad readership as well as to scholars and students of Classics and other fields, and it may also be suggested as accompanying reading in Classical Civilization classes or similar courses.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Bryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"An eloquently erudite and insightful analysis of one of the world's most famous works of literature from Ancient Greece.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Midwest Book Review\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e Kostas Myrsiades' remarkably accessible and lively commentary comes as a great boost to readers who approach the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e with great interest but little background in the world of the epic and the techniques of Homer. This book serves as a kind of museum guide through each portion of the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, giving us the benefit of the author's wealth of erudition and knowledge in readily understandable prose. Myrsiades not only explains the peculiar features of the narrative and content but also offers many helpful interpretive approaches, including some recent controversial suggestions, that have arisen from his decades of teaching this epic. This commentary will be especially helpful in giving high school and college teachers with little formal classical training the information and tools that will make them authoritative in the classroom. A pleasure to read.\u003c\/div\u003e— Scott Richardson, Professor of Classics, St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Homer's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e continues to be studied in universities and schools, and to be read and referred to by ordinary readers. \u003ci\u003eReading Homer's Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e offers a book-by-book commentary on the epic's themes that informs the non-specialist and engages the seasoned reader in new perspectives. Among the themes discussed are hospitality, survival, wealth, reputation and immortality, the Olympian gods, self-reliance and community, civility, behavior, etiquette and technology, ease, inactivity and stagnation, Penelope's relationship with Odysseus, Telemachus' journey, Odysseus' rejection of Calypso's offer of immortality, Odysseus' lies, Homer's use of the House of Atreus and other myths, the cinematic qualities of the epic's structure, women's role in the epic, and the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e's true ending. Footnotes clarify and elaborate upon myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, in addition to the bibliographies that accompany each book's commentary.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI. From Ithaca to Wonderland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Telemachus' Journey (\u003ci\u003eOd\u003c\/i\u003e.1-4)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Odysseus from Calypso to the Phaeacians (\u003ci\u003eOd\u003c\/i\u003e.5-8)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Odysseus' Wanderings (\u003ci\u003eOd\u003c\/i\u003e.9-12)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eII. 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