The Odyssey. Homer
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Название: The Odyssey
Автор: Homer
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4057664145864
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Homer
The Odyssey
Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664145864
Table of Contents
TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS.
CALYPSO—ULYSSES REACHES SCHERIA ON A RAFT.
THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES.
RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS.
BANQUET IN THE HOUSE OF ALCINOUS—THE GAMES.
AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE.
THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN.
ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA.
ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS.
ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS.
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled "The Authoress of the Odyssey", which I published in 1897. I could not give the whole "Odyssey" in that book without making it unwieldy, I therefore epitomised my translation, which was already completed and which I now publish in full.
I shall not here argue the two main points dealt with in the work just mentioned; I have nothing either to add to, or to withdraw from, what I have there written. The points in question are:
(1) that the "Odyssey" was written entirely at, and drawn entirely from, the place now called Trapani on the West Coast of Sicily, alike as regards the Phaeacian and the Ithaca scenes; while the voyages of Ulysses, when once he is within easy reach of Sicily, solve themselves into a periplus of the island, practically from Trapani back to Trapani, via the Lipari islands, the Straits of Messina, and the island of Pantellaria.
(2) That the poem was entirely written by a very young woman, who lived at the place now called Trapani, and СКАЧАТЬ