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Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey-with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Ulysses and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods-are familiar to most people because they are so pervasive. They have fed our imaginations for over two and a half millennia,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his 'one last chance' to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and,...
18) The odyssey
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Homer's epic tale of the warrior Odysseus's decades-long struggle to return home after the Trojan War is simply retold for younger readers.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An eye-searing, mind-bending, gender-shattering epic science fiction retelling of Homer's Odyssey starting with the end of a great war in the stars and the beginning of a very long journey home for Odyssia and her crew of warriors." --
