Homer Unisex Multicolor Odyssey Paperback Book

Homer

The OdysseyAuthor(s): Homer, Adam Roberts, Keith Carabine\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wordsworth Editions Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781853260254, 978-1853260254\nSynopsis\nWith an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London.\n\nHomer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they did in Archaic Greece, 2800 years ago.\n\nThis poem has been translated many times over the years, but Chapman's sinewy, gorgeous rendering [tel] stands in a class of its own. Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself, and matches the breadth and power of the original with a complex and stunning idiom of his own. John Keats expressed his admiration for the resulting w.