HOMER THE ODYSSEY

							LITERARY FICTION
                                                                                                   MAY 2009
                                                             HOMER
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                                                             THE ODYSSEY
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                                                             Odysseus’s reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his en-
                                                             counters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage
                                                             home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story
                                                             and an individual test of moral endurance.
                                                             Greek poet Homer established the standard for tales of epic
                                                             quests and heroic journeys with the Odyssey. Crowded with
                                                             characters, both human and nonhuman, and bursting with
                                                             action, the Odyssey details the adventures of Odysseus, king
                                                             of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War, as he struggles to return
                                                             to his home and his waiting, ever-faithful wife, Penelope.
                                                             Along the way Odysseus encounters the seductive Circe,
                                                             who changes men into swine; the gorgeous water-nymph
                                                             Calypso, who keeps him a “prisoner of love” for seven years;
                                                             the terrible, one-eyed, man-eating giant Cyclops; and a host
                                                             of other ogres, wizards, sirens, and gods. But when he finally
                                                             reaches Ithaca after ten years of travel, his trials have only
                                                             begun. There he must battle the scheming noblemen who,
                                                             thinking him dead, have demanded that Penelope choose
                                                             one of them to be her new husband—and Ithaca’s new king.
                                                             Often called the “second work of Western literature” (the
                                                             Iliad, also by Homer, being the first), the Odyssey is not only
                                                             a rousing adventure drama but also a profound meditation
                                                             on courage, loyalty, family, fate, and undying love. More
 Read by Simon Prebble                                       than 3,000 years old, it was the first story to delineate
 Category: Literary Fiction                                  carefully and exhaustively a single character arc—a narrative
 Running Time: 11 hrs - Unabridged                           structure that serves as the foundation and heart of the
 Available: 05/28/2009                                       modern novel.
 Territory: World English
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                 Homer is a legendary ancient Greek
                 poet, traditionally said to be the author
                 of the epic poems the Iliad and the                           Audiobook Includes Companion eBook

                 Odyssey. The ancient Greeks generally        ! Easy to use—includes automatic
                 believed that Homer was a historical           startup, full instructions, and table
                 individual, but modern scholars are            of contents
                 skeptical: no reliable biographical          ! Keyword search and navigation
 information has been handed down from classical anti-        ! Printable PDF format is compatible
       ,
 quity and the poems themselves manifestly represent            with eReaders, PCs, and Laptops
 the culmination of many centuries of oral storytelling       ! Available in choice of three formats:
 and a well-developed “formulaic” system of poetic              Trade CD, Library CD, or MP3-CD
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 composition. It has been suggested that “Homer” is
 “not the name of a historical poet, but a fictitious or
 constructed name.”
 As one of AudioFile magazine’s Golden Voices, Simon
 Prebble has received over twenty Earphones Awards
 and five Listen Up Awards, and he has been a finalist
 eleven times fo an Audie Award. In 2006, Publishers
 W  eekly named him Narrator of the Year.


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