Understanding The Odyssey A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents

For thousands of years, The Odyssey has resonated throughout the Western world. Homer has been an original source of inspiration to writers, painters, sculptors, and filmmakers, as well as a vital source of information about the mythology, history, and culture of ancient Greece. This casebook uniquely blends commentary and primary documents, situating the epic within historical contexts that are important for students to understand.

The literary analysis chapter is ideal for readers coming to The Odyssey for the first time, introducing the work with a chronology of events and identification of major characters and themes. Topical chapters carefully consider matters of mythology, geography, archeology, and class issues pertinent to The Odyssey. Excerpts from classical and scholarly sources, including Herodotus, Plato, Thucydides, and Bulfinch, help students understand the historical framework, and materials from government documents and newspaper accounts help students make connections betweenThe Odyssey's thematic ideas and current events, such as the September 11th attacks and the ongoing conflict in Ireland.

A propos de l'auteur

CLAUDIA DURST JOHNSON is Professor Emerita at the University of Alabama, where she chaired the English Department for 12 years. She is series editor of the Greenwood Press Literature in Context series, for which she has authored several other books. She is also author of To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries (1994) and The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art (1981), as well as numerous articles on American literature and theatre.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Johnson Claudia Durst, Johnson Vernon, Claudia Durst Johnson, Ken G. Albala, Vernon Johnson
• Edition: Greenwood
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre Relié
• Date de parution: 05.09.2000
• Catégorie: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre
• EAN: 9780313308819
• ISBN: 978-0-313-30881-9
• Nombre de pages: 246
• Dimensions (emballage): 16,1 x 24 x 1,8 cm
• Poids (emballage): 537 g
• Thème: The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series
• Catégories: LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference; The arts; Literary studies: general; Literary reference works