The Odyssey by Homer
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The Odyssey by Homer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I read this many years ago, and not surprisingly found it quite difficult. I'd been meaning for a while to give it another go.
The account of Odysseus' adventures on his return from the Trojan War was very exciting, though not surprisngly, I found it quite dense. I also noticed on re-reading it that the book picked up his story half-way through, with him being washed up on shore, and telling of his journeys in flashback, and the final third or so of the book was about how he reclaimed his wife Penelope from all the suitors who had come to woo her.
I was glad that I took the trouble to re-read it, just to observe some of the language used by the (possibly fictional) Homer, such as a bit where a fallen opponent "measured his length in the dust". My favourite section was the encounter with the cyclops, leading to a comic moment after Odysseus introduced himself as "No Man". I found myself reading for about half an hour at a time, mostly because I kept re-reading sections; the Hades sequence was particularly detailed, and I didn't want to miss anything.
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The Odyssey by Homer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I read this many years ago, and not surprisingly found it quite difficult. I'd been meaning for a while to give it another go.
The account of Odysseus' adventures on his return from the Trojan War was very exciting, though not surprisngly, I found it quite dense. I also noticed on re-reading it that the book picked up his story half-way through, with him being washed up on shore, and telling of his journeys in flashback, and the final third or so of the book was about how he reclaimed his wife Penelope from all the suitors who had come to woo her.
I was glad that I took the trouble to re-read it, just to observe some of the language used by the (possibly fictional) Homer, such as a bit where a fallen opponent "measured his length in the dust". My favourite section was the encounter with the cyclops, leading to a comic moment after Odysseus introduced himself as "No Man". I found myself reading for about half an hour at a time, mostly because I kept re-reading sections; the Hades sequence was particularly detailed, and I didn't want to miss anything.
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