enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: understanding the odyssey by homer

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Odyssey - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey

    The Odyssey (/ ˈ ɒ d ɪ s i /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia) [2] [3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.It is one of the oldest works of literature still widely read by modern audiences.

  3. Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(Emily_Wilson...

    The Odyssey is a 2017 translation of Homer's Odyssey by classicist Emily Wilson. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company. Wilson, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, retained the line count and blank verse of the original Homeric Greek but changed the meter from dactylic hexameter to iambic pentameter. Wilson's translation is the ...

  4. Odyssey (George Chapman translation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer's_Odysses

    Thomas Wilson compared Chapman's Odyssey positively compared to his Iliad. [16] John Keats was very moved by Chapman's Iliad and Odyssey, and especially admired the beauty of one of Chapman's metaphors: "The sea has soakt has heart through". [17] In 1820, Keats borrowed a copy of Chapman's Homer from Benjamin Haydon but it was lost or stolen. [18]

  5. Odyssey (Alexander Pope translation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_(Alexander_Pope...

    The Odyssey of Homer is an English translation of the Odyssey of Homer by British poet Alexander Pope.It was published in five volumes between 1725 and 1726. As with his translation of the Iliad, Pope changed the metre from the dactylic hexameter of the original into heroic couplets, rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter.

  6. Homer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer

    Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...

  7. The Odyssey of Homer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_of_Homer

    The Odyssey of Homer is an English translation of the Odyssey of Homer by British poet Alexander Pope.It was published in five volumes between 1725 and 1726. As with his translation of the Iliad, Pope changed the metre from the dactylic hexameter of the original into heroic couplets, rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter.

  8. English translations of Homer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_translations_of_Homer

    Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.

  9. Suitors of Penelope - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitors_of_Penelope

    In the Odyssey, Homer describes Odysseus' journey home from Troy. Prior to the Trojan War, Odysseus was King of Ithaca, a Greek island known for its isolation and rugged terrain. [1] When he departs from Ithaca to fight for the Greeks in the war, he leaves behind a newborn child, Telemachus, and his wife, Penelope. Although most surviving Greek ...

  1. Ad

    related to: understanding the odyssey by homer