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I took an online course about this book in the coursera app. I highly recommend doing it this way because otherwise it is just too boring. You'll miss the points that the guy made in the app and I keep thinking about:
The Odyssey is a myth by Greeks4Greeks about how you treat a guest. Hospitality was incredibly important to them. If someone comes into your house and hugs you by your knees, that is a sign that they are a guest and YOU BETTER TREAT THEM WELL OR THE GODS WILL BE DISGUSTED AND EVERYO ...more
The Odyssey is a myth by Greeks4Greeks about how you treat a guest. Hospitality was incredibly important to them. If someone comes into your house and hugs you by your knees, that is a sign that they are a guest and YOU BETTER TREAT THEM WELL OR THE GODS WILL BE DISGUSTED AND EVERYO ...more
So I decided to make this my big classic read for Dewey's Readathon, which means I read this in more or less a single sitting. The advantage was not losing momentum/familiarity while taking weeks or months to finish this. The disadvantage was getting. little antsy. Not a big price to pay.
This was a lovely read! The translation was almost shockingly readable. It really was fascinating how familiar almost all the story beats were, yet how surprised I still was by how the story unfolded.
So glad I f ...more
This was a lovely read! The translation was almost shockingly readable. It really was fascinating how familiar almost all the story beats were, yet how surprised I still was by how the story unfolded.
So glad I f ...more
This translation of The Odyssey was wonderful -- so accessible and vivid! I'm not sure I've ever read The Odyssey before, although the stories were all familiar. So I was surprised that it is pretty disjointed and fragmented; there isn't a natural flow to the story, although Odysseus does eventually make it home, as expected. Still, I really enjoyed this translation.
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I really dug some of the choices Wilson made, and look forward to her Iliad.
Dec 07, 2017
Kimberly Hirsh
marked it as to-read
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Shelves:
greco-roman-myth
Apr 15, 2018
Crystal King
rated it
it was amazing
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Shelves:
classical-literature
