The Odyssey of Homer
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Elizabeth Vandiver
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What is it in Homer's Odyssey that has so enthralled readers from around the world for thousands of years? By joining Professor Vandiver for these 12 lectures on the Odyssey, you'll find out why.
This literary exploration centers on a single provocative question about the epic poem's protagonist, Odysseus: Why does he long so powerfully to go home? To probe the depths of this question, you'll embark on meticulous, insightful examinations of the most important episodes in the Odyssey. In doing so, you'll understand the cultural assumptions that lie behind Homer's lines and the critical and interpretive issues involved in truly unpacking this ancient masterpiece.Among the range of episodes, themes, and topics you'll explore are: Odysseus's superb skills as a rhetorician; the abrupt break in the text at the end of the "Great Wanderings" episode, when the poem briefly returns to the third-person narrative; Penelope's knowledge and motives as they relate to the inevitability of her suitors' doom; the effectiveness (or possible lack thereof) in the poem's ending; the historical basis for the Trojan War from which Odysseus returns; and more.
For anyone who's loved the stories of Odysseus's encounters with witches, monsters, and vengeful gods; for anyone who's longed to truly grasp the intricate nature of Homer's epic; or for anyone who has been looking for ways to approach a work that can often be intimidating to first-time readers, these lectures are an invaluable resource and a helpful introduction to the grandest adventure story in Western literature.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte5 out of 5 stars
- TeeJay
- 23.02.2024
Great Intro
Excellent intro to Homer for a novice. The lecture series became more and more exciting as one approached the end.
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- Thorsten Kirchheim
- 21.03.2023
Great lecture(s) by a great tutor
There are normally names in historical sciences where you know, that you can't do anything wrong when joining one of her or his lectures. One of those names is Elizabeth Vangiver.
I really enjoy the great extent of her research, the level of details of her courses and the clean positioning of her studies. All of them help to shape out a clean and well-founded approach to a topic, that on the first glance looks like a mythos, but reveals his historical realism on a second glance.
As she already did in her lectures about the Iliad, Elizabeth Vangiver summarizes in a clear approach to the topic the contents of Homer's Odyssey. Unlike in her Iliad session, she favors to stick to the contents very much stronger. Yet she also emphasizes contradictions in Homer's Odyssey and also outlines scientific doubts on the homeric authorship of some of it's contents.
As a summary, Ms. Vangiver then turns towards Schliemann's excavation of Troia, as well as the latest historical researches about this mythological conflict.
As always, I enjoyed Elizabeth Vangiver lectures, and I can also recommend them highly to people with a more academic outlook on it's topics. Thank you for sharing the works here.
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