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The Odyssey
Also known as Odyssey
Synopsis
After the Trojan War, Odysseus spends ten years trying to get back to Ithaca, delayed by gods, monsters, and his own curiosity. At home, his wife holds off a house full of men who want his place. The poem’s subject is not the voyage so much as the difficulty of being recognized when you finally arrive.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- c. 8th century BCE
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Country
- Greece
- Form
- Epic poem
- Genre
- Adventure, Epic
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- Ancient
- Movement
- Ancient epic
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 416 pages
- Reported copies
- Continuous reading for nearly three thousand years
- Kind
- Fiction