“Odyssey” is a narration that leads us to Greece 3,000 years ago.
A fantastic history of adventure, where Ulysses, king of the island of Itaca, comes the combat in the war of Trojan and fight alongside the powerful Achilles.
Sanderlei Silveira ® - 2023-09-19T12:27-03:00 - US L
“Odyssey” is a narration that leads us to Greece 3,000 years ago.
A fantastic history of adventure, where Ulysses, king of the island of Itaca, comes the combat in the war of Trojan and fight alongside the powerful Achilles.
Everyone returns to their homes after the war, but the gods did not want to Ulysses, who then wanders twenty years through the seas of Greece.
On his long trip, he comes across monsters, mermaids, wizards, and gods who assume human form.
During these twenty years away from Itaque, his dear wife Penelope suffers for her husband and only survives because of her son Telemaco and the hope that Ulysses will one day come back and get avenge from all the suitors of his hand and that they constantly make up the Telêmaco murder before it assumes the throne.
Helped by the goddess Palas Athena, daughter of Zeus, Ulysses returns to her home in the form of a beggar, no one suspects that such a beggar is Ulysses and treat him badly.
With the help of the Goddess Athena and her son Telemaco, Ulysses kills all the devourers of her home and also to the unfaithful servants.
About the author:
Homer was an epic poet of ancient Greece, to which the authorship of the illegal and odyssey epic poems is traditionally attributed.
The ancient Greeks often believed that Homer was a historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical: no trusted biographical information was transmitted from classical antiquity, and the poems themselves manifestly represent the culmination of many centuries of history told orally and a well developed System already often used of poetic composition. According to Martin West, "Homero" is not "the name of a historical poet, but a fictional or built name." For historian and philosopher Richard Tranas, Homer - regardless of the controversy about his historical existence - was "a collective personification of all ancient Greek memory."
Homer was born in Smyrna, present -day Turkey, or some island of the Aegean Sea and lived in the 8th century BC. But its origin is so controversial that eight cities vie for the honor of having been the poet's homeland.
The date of Homer's existence was controversial in antiquity and is no less today. Herodotus said Homero lived 400 years before his own time, which would put him around 850 BC, but other old sources gave much closer dates to the supposed time of the Trojan War. The date of the Trojan War was given as 1194-1184 BC by Etósthenes, who struggled to establish a scientific chronology of events and this date has been supported by more recent archaeological research.
For modern science, "the date of Homer" refers to the conception date of poems as much as to the life of an individual. The consensus of scholars is that "the Iliad and Odyssey date from the last years of the ninth century BC, or from the eighth century BC, the Iliad being prior to the odyssey, perhaps for a few decades", that is, a little earlier from the that hesiod, and that the Iliad is the oldest work in Western literature. Over the past few decades, some scholars have defended a seventh century BC date. Those who believe that Homeric poems have gradually developed for a long period of time, however, usually give a later date to poems: According to Pausanias,, The texts were compiled at the time of the Athenian tyrant Pisistrato; According to Gregory Nagy, they became fixed texts only in the 6th century BC.
Alfred Heubeck states that the formative influence of Homero's works modeling and influencing all the development of Greek culture was recognized by many of the Greeks themselves, who considered him his instructor.
In addition to these two great works, but without historical or literary support, the margitis works, a comic poem on a bumbling hero, are attributed to him; Batracomomachy, burlesque parody of the Iliad that reports a fantastic war between rats and frogs, and the Homeric hymns.
Already before the beginning of philosophical thinking, the rich works of Homer (Iliad and Odyssey) tend to bring the gods closer to men, in a movement of rationalization of the divine. The Homeric gods, who lived on Mount Olympus, had a series of anthropomorphic characteristics.
Although "Homer" is a Greek name, attested in wind speech regions, nothing concrete is known about him; However, traditions arose intended to give details about the place of his birth and context: the satirical Luciano, in his fabulous true story, makes Homer a Babylon who took the name of Homer only when taken "hostage" (homeros) by the Greeks. When Emperor Adriano asked the Oracle of Delphi who Homer was really, Pia proclaimed that he was an Itaco, son of Jocasta and Telemaco, of Odyssey. These stories proliferated and were incorporated into a number of Homero lives compiled from the Alexandrian period. The most common version says that Homer was born in the Jonia region of Asia Minor, Smyrna, or on the island of Quios, dying in iOS, on the Cyclades islands. The screenshot connection seems to be alluded to a legend that its original name was "Melesigenes" ("Born in Meles", a river that ran through this city), and the nymph Creteia. Evidence contained in their poems give some support to this version: familiarity with the topography of the coastal area of Asia Minor is seen in the names of the places and details, and evocative comparisons of the local scenery: the poultry of the Paddas, in the Foz do Caister (Iliad 2.459ff.), A storm in the sea and open that Ícaro (Iliad 2.144ff.), And knowledge about the winds (Iliad 2.394ff: 4.422ff: 9.5), or that women from both the meonian and range of the tingem ivory with scarlet (Iliad 4,142).