The Odyssey
Homer
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Who was Homer?
- Homer and History
- The Odyssey and Narrative Technique
- Categorising the Books of the Odyssey
- Books 1-4: The Telemachy
- Books 5-8: Odysseus among the Phaeacians
- Books 9-12: The Great Wandering (Cyclps, Sirens, Circe etc.)
- Books 13-16: Odysseus arrives in Ithaca
- Books 17-19: Odysseus in the Palace
- Books 20-24: Grand Finale
- Style and Oral Poetry
- The "Low" Style
- The Gods
- Men and Gods
- Heroism
- Characterisation
- Interdependency of Odyssey and Iliad
- Sample Questions
- Further Reading
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- Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton
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