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The Odyssey (New edition)

HOMER Griffin, Jasper(Preface by)Hammond, Martin(Translated by)
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'Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy.

Many were the men whose lands he saw and came to know their thinking: many too the miseries at sea which he suffered in his heart, as he sought to win his own life and the safe return of his companions.' Recounting the epic journey home of Odysseus from the Trojan War, The Odyssey - alongside its sister poem The Iliad - stands as the well-spring of Western Civilisation and culture, an inspiration to poets, writers and thinkers for thousands of years since.

This authoritative prose translation by Martin Hammond brings Homer's great poem of homecoming to life as Odysseus battles through such familiar dangers as the cave of the Cyclops, the call of the Sirens and his hostile reception back in his native land of Ithaca.

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Bloomsbury Academic
1472532481 / 9781472532480
Paperback / softback
883.01
22/05/2014
United Kingdom
English
320 pages
22 cm
Quiz No: 212043, Points 24.00, Book Level 10.30,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Translated from the Ancient Greek.