HOMER

ODYSSEY P
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-992588-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

The Odyssey is one of the world's greatest and best-loved poems. It has survived for twenty-eight centuries, through upheavals that have wiped out most of what was written in the ancient world. Now Barry B. Powell, one of the twenty-first century's leading Homeric scholars, has given us a powerful new translation.

Powell's translation renders the Homeric Greek with a simplicity and dignity reminiscent of the original. The text immediately engrosses students with its tight and balanced rhythms, while the incantatory repetitions evoke a continuous "stream of sound" that offers as good an impression of Homer's Greek as one could hope to attain without learning the language. Accessible, poetic, and accurate, this translation is an excellent fit for today's students. Powell exposes them to all of the adventure, cunning, pathos, and humor that are Homer's Odyssey.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powell

Powell, Barry B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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- Introduction

- Book 1: Telemachos in Ithaca

- Book 2: Telemachos Calls an Assembly

- Book 3: Telemachos in Pylos

- Book 4: Telemachos in Sparta

- Book 5: Odysseus and Kalypso

- Book 6: Odysseus and Nausicaä

- Book 7: Odysseus in the Phaeacian Court

- Book 8: The Stranger in Town

- Book 9: Odysseus in the Cave of Cyclops

- Book 10: Odysseus and Kirkê

- Book 11: Odysseus in the Underworld

- Book 12: Odysseus on the Island of the Sun

- Book 13: Home at Last

- Book 14: Odysseus in the Pig Herder's Hut

- Book 15: The Pig Herder's Tale

- Book 16: Father and Son

- Book 17: The Faithful Dog Argos

- Book 18: Presents from the Suitors

- Book 19: Odysseus' Scar

- Book 20: A Vision of Doom

- Book 21: The Contest of the Bow

- Book 22: The Slaughter of the Suitors

- Book 23: Husband and Wife

- Book 24: Father and Son

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Über Autor(innen)

BARRY B. POWELL is the Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for thirty-four years. He is the author of the widely used textbook Classical Myth (8th edition, 2014). His A Short Introduction to Classical Myth (2001, translated into German) is a summary study of the topic. Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (1991) advances the thesis that a single man invented the Greek alphabet expressly in order to record the poems of Homer. Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature (2003) develops the consequence of this thesis.

Powell's critical study Homer (2nd edition, 2004, translated into Italian) is widely read as an introduction for philologists, historians, and students of literature. A New Companion to Homer (1997, with Ian Morris, translated into modern Greek) is a comprehensive review of modern scholarship on Homer. Powell's Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization (2009, translated into Arabic and modern Greek).