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ILLIAD & ODYSSEY (Including the Mythology of Ancient Greece) - Complete Edition with Introduction by Gilbert Murray - cover

ILLIAD & ODYSSEY (Including the Mythology of Ancient Greece) - Complete Edition with Introduction by Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray, Homer Homer

Traduttore Samuel Butler

Casa editrice: e-artnow

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The Iliad and the Odyssey are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. From antiquity until the present day, the influence of Homeric epic on Western civilization has been great, inspiring many of its most famous works of literature, music, art and film. The Homeric epics were the greatest influence on ancient Greek culture and education; to Plato, Homer was simply the one who "has taught Greece"
Disponibile da: 11/12/2023.
Lunghezza di stampa: 680 pagine.

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