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Feb 14, 2020
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It's the Odyssey read by Ian McKellen, of course it's awesome.
Listening, I would often imagine it dramatised, the old bearded man sitting in a hall of an evening telling his story to feasters by the glow of a fire, the scene sometimes fading into others showing the action of the poem.
It felt so much more alive and enjoyable just listening to it than I found the Iliad, also in Fagles' translation, when I read it several years ago - or even compared with some of the times when I read the text of t ...more
Listening, I would often imagine it dramatised, the old bearded man sitting in a hall of an evening telling his story to feasters by the glow of a fire, the scene sometimes fading into others showing the action of the poem.
It felt so much more alive and enjoyable just listening to it than I found the Iliad, also in Fagles' translation, when I read it several years ago - or even compared with some of the times when I read the text of t ...more
This was my fourth read and it just gets better every time. A concept of xenia is mandatory. So happy to once again step into the world of the ancient Greeks!
I had vague memories of reading The Odyssey for an English class. The various adventures came back to me as I read. I must not have read this very closely the first time around. I probably shimmed a lot of it way back when. I listened to the book this time, and I got into the story more. I especially enjoyed the last chapters of the book. There are so many different Gods mentioned in The Odyssey. It's hard to keep track of all of them. I kept wondering how all the suitors would be defeated, whic
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