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Audio Book Author: Homer, dramatized by Simon Armitage
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The Odyssey:
BBC Radio Dramatization
Author:
Homer, dramatized by Simon Armitage
BBC Radio Dramatization
2009 Audie Award winner, Audio Drama. After ten years of war, Odysseus just wanted to go home. But the agonizing voyage back took him another ten years, what with storms, monsters, gods, and sorceresses. The epic voyage of this soldier andfamily man, always roaming with a hungry heart, springs to life in this robust work, told with immediacy and excitement. "Urgent, poetically earthy, and extremely listenable... outstanding audio theater."—AudioFile
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Publish Date: 11/11/2008
ISBN: 9781602834835
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Synopsis:
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A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he encounters many monsters and other obstacles on his journey home from the Trojan War.
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Book Reviews:
| "The Odyssey is the part of Homer we are best equipped to appreciate, in this time of women's newly asserted dignity, and Fagles is the person best equipped to bring the epic to us." |
| New Yorker - Garry Wills (01/27/1997) |
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Author Bio:
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Little is known about the author of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey". No records were kept, and even our knowledge of the major events of Greek history before 600 B.C. is sketchy at best. Most of the information about Homer is drawn from internal evidence in the two epics, a bit of archaeological evidence, and unreliable tradition--much of it based on the highly speculative 5th-century B.C. biography by Theocritus. No one is even sure whether the works attributed to Homer were written solely by him, or, as part of the "oral-formulaic" tradition, were the result of the efforts of many bards. It is generally believed that Homer was blind and poor. Beyond that, critics and historians agree that one poet brought together into a brilliant synthesis the songs and legends that had been current in Greece since the end of the Trojan War in 1200 B.C.--information that had been passed on by oral tradition and so was in constant flux. Whatever the method of composition, and whoever the author, however, the magnificent epics attributed to Homer are masterpieces of literature and fertile inspirations for later art.
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