The Homer 2 Books Box Set By Homer

The Homer 2 Books Box Set By Homer
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Homer
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Titles In The Set:

1. The Iliad
2. The Odyssey

Description:

The Iliad
The Iliad by Homer, dating from the 9th century B.C.E., is an epic poem which describes the dominant events of the final year of the Trojan war; the machinations of the gods, and the efforts of men.
At the centre of this saga is Achilles, the greatest warrior of the Greeks, and his opponent, the mighty Hector of Troy.
Homer builds a narrative bubbling with heroism, death, love, loyalty, compassion, and cruelty - an emotional struggle set against the schemes of vacillating gods.

The Odyssey
Widely known as one of the great epics of all time that has influences on European renaissance literature, The Odyssey is a poem said to have been composed around the 8th Century BC in Greece. It is also considered a sequel to another Great epic,
Iliad. The story of this epic revolves around the Greek hero, Odysseus and his return to his kingdom, Ithaca.
Troy has fallen after a ten year war and its victorious hero, Odysseus wants to return to Ithaca. However, he has not been able to reach Ithaca for another ten years, since he has to face many struggles with his antagonists on his way back, such as the God, Poscidon, and many other mythical creatures and also his greedy and lazy crew.
This epic by Greek poet, Homer, narrates the long ordeal of Odysseus and will certainly enthral the reader.

Homer

Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives.

He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.

In The Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope.

We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time.

  • Title: The Homer 2 Books Box Set By Homer
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  • ISBN 10: 9789394984622
  • ISBN 13: AMZ84622
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    Homer
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    Wilco books
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