
Odyssey
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- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Maps and Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Translator
- Maps
- Homeric Timeline
- Introduction
- THE DIFFICULTY OF HOMER
- WHO WAS HOMER?
- THE TEXT OF HOMER
- THE ALEXANDRIAN VULGATE
- BEFORE AND AFTER THE VULGATE
- THE HOMERIC QUESTION
- THE ORAL-FORMULAIC THEORY
- MILMAN PARRY AND ALBERT B. LORD
- THE ORAL STYLE
- HOMER AND THE ALPHABET
- THE INVENTION OF THE ALPHABET
- MENIN AEIDE THEA PELEIADEO AKHILEOS
- WHY HOMER IS IMPORTANT
- THE FIRST TEXT OF HOMER
- THE GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF ORAL SONG
- HOMER AND HISTORY
- GREEK HISTORY
- SCHLIEMANN' S TROY
- WAS THERE A TROJAN WAR?
- THE HOMECOMING OF ODYSSEUS
- SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND
- NOSTOS
- THE FOLKTALE OF THE HOMECOMING HUSBAND
- THE MORAL ODYSSEY
- MYTHIC PATTERNS IN THE ODYSSEY
- THE SINGER SINGS
- TRANSLATION ISSUES
- THE REPETITIVE STYLE
- GETTING USED TO HOMER'S WORLD
- ON THIS TRANSLATION
- TRANSLITERATION AND PRONUNCIATION OF NAMES
- Book 1. Telemachos in Ithaca
- Book 2. Telemachos Calls an Assembly
- Book 3. Telemachos in Pylos
- Book 4. Telemachos in Sparta
- Book 5. Odysseus and Kalypso
- Book 6. Odysseus and Nausicaä
- Book 7. Odysseus in the Phaeacian Court
- Book 8. The Stranger in Town
- Book 9. Odysseus in the Cave of Cyclops
- Book 10. Odysseus and Kirkê
- Book 11. Odysseus in the Underworld
- Book 12. Odysseus on the Island of the Sun
- Book 13. Home at Last
- Book 14. Odysseus in the Pig Herder's Hut
- Book 15. The Pig Herder's Tale
- Book 16. Father and Son
- Book 17. The Faithful Dog Argos
- Book 18. Presents from the Suitors
- Book 19. Odysseus' Scar
- Book 20. A Vision of Doom
- Book 21. The Contest of the Bow
- Book 22. The Slaughter of the Suitors
- Book 23. Husband and Wife
- Book 24. Father and Son
- Bibliography
- Credits
- Pronouncing Glossary/Index
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