Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
Subtitle: A biography
Series: Books The Shook The World
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly; Atlantic
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 285
Description: "The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers are often unaware that they were made famous by two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and one blind poet: Homer." "Starting with their inception in ancient Greece, Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey demonstrates these poems reverberate through the western canon, from the Rome of Virgil and Horace to Joyce's Dublin and Derek Walcott's Caribbean, via Dante and Racine. In this lyrical and graceful book, Alberto Manguel delights in the original, poems and celebrates their presence throughout history."--BOOK JACKET.