Odyssey

Name: Odyssey
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ISBN: 9780472088546

ISBN-10: 0472088548

ISBN-13: 9780472088546

Edition: 2002

Authors: Rodney Merrill, Rodney Merrill

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The Odyssey is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of world literature. Its basic story--the homecoming of Odysseus--is widely known. Although it has often been translated, earlier versions do not give the reader the full sense of its oral epic nature as a song that came into being through a long tradition of sung performances before writing was widely practiced. When finally written down, it retained its oral-formulaic nature in ways that are clearly discernible, and which this translation successfully captures. Rodney Merrill strictly adheres to the use of dactylic hexameter, the meter by which the formulaic language of Homeric poetry is rendered as musical phrasing rather than as…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 8/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Rodney Merrill is retired and an independent scholar. He has taught at Stanford University, the University of San Francisco, and the University of California, Berkeley.