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After ten years of uninterrupted war, blood and agony, the Trojans have finally been defeated. Odysseus and his men begin the epic journey of returning to Ithaca. Along the way, terrifying enemies await them: the cyclops Polyphemus, the lotus eaters who feast on narcotic flowers that give only oblivion, the sorceress who turns men into swine, and the deadly, enthralling sirens.
Odysseus is determined to make his way home to Ithaca, where his beloved family have awaited him for many long years. But his journey will present him with new, terrible perils - ones that he could not have dreamed of even in his wildest nightmares. In Odysseus: The Return, the second in his Odysseus epic, Valerio Massimo Manfredi gives a new voice to one of the most adventurous and fascinating heroes of all time. Odysseus and his men begin the epic journey to return to Ithaca.
Along the way, terrifying enemies await them: the cyclops Polyphemus, the lotus eaters, who feast on narcotic flowers that give only oblivion, the sorceress who turns men into swine, and the deadly, enthralling sirens. In this stunning new novel, Valerio Massimo Manfredi gives a new voice to one of the most adventurous and fascinating heroes of all time.
English poet Patrick Dickinson sets the story of Odysseus returning for Penelope, with Arnold's music serving the story in the most direct manner possible. Focusing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward after the Trojan War, Irad Malkin shows how these stories functioned to mediate encounters and conceptualize ethnicity and identity during the Archaic and Classical periods.
Synthesizing a wide range of archaeological, mythological, and literary sources, this exceptionally learned book strengthens our understanding of early Greek exploration and city-founding along the coasts of the Western Mediterranean, reconceptualizes the role of myth in ancient societies, and revitalizes our understanding of ethnicity in antiquity.
Malkin shows how the figure of Odysseus became a proto-colonial hero whose influence transcended the Greek-speaking world. The return-myths constituted a generative mythology, giving rise to oral poems, stories, iconographic imagery, rituals, historiographical interpretation, and the articulation of ethnic identities. Reassessing the role of Homer and alternative return-myths, the book argues for the active historical function of myth and collective representations and traces their changing roles through a spectrum of colonial perceptions—from the proto-colonial, through justifications of expansion and annexation, and up to decolonization.
Odysseus and his men begin the epic journey to return to Ithaca. Along the way, terrifying enemies await them: the cyclops Polyphemus, the lotus eaters, who feast on narcotic flowers that give only oblivion, the sorceress who turns men into swine, and the deadly, enthralling sirens. In this stunning new novel, Valerio Massimo Manfredi gives a new voice to one of the most adventurous and fascinating heroes of all time. His son Telemachus, already experiencing the family curse, urges Odysseus to wreak vengeance on the suitors who have besieged his wife Penelope during his long absence.
At a feast Telemachus removes the suitors' weapons while Penelope announces that she will marry whoever can wield Odysseus' bow. During the competition the suitors begin brawling. Odysseus seizes his bow and kills many of them before peace is made by Laertes, his father. After asking Laertes' forgiveness for former sins, Odysseus remembers his old hatred for his father and flees, knowing that Taphian pirates are planning to raid his house.
At the seashore Odysseus, crawling on a rocky cliff, is distracted by the voices of the Sirens, who are beckoning him. He yearns for his lost home and heads toward a brightness in the sea that he imagines to be the Ithaca of his youth. Discovering it is only an apparition, he wades back toward the real, desolate Ithaca and its accusing voices. The voices belong to the dead of Ithaca converging on Hermes' boat to be transported into oblivion. Odysseus shouts for them to wait for him and plunges into the sea.
The story of Odysseus and his return home from Troy is over three thousand years old. Homer's epic poem has been translated hundreds of times, put into prose, made into movies and inspired artists from Tennyson to the Coen Brothers, but no book or movie has told the story behind the legend.
What was Odysseus like as a man, his fears and doubts, and how did the mind of one of the cleverest Greek heroes really work? Set in BC in Ancient Greece, the story is a behind-the-scenes retelling of the epic tale of Odysseus and his return home to Ithaca after eighteen years of war and wandering. This is the story of the Beggar King-the account of an all-too-human man who pleads with the gods, lies and schemes, plots and fights in a desperate attempt to reclaim all that he has lost.
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