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基本信息·出版社：Hyperion
·页码：224 页
·出版日期：2004年02月
·ISBN：1401300243
·International Standard Book Number：1401300243
·条形码：9781401300241
·EAN：9781401300241
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
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From an acclaimed classicist comes a witty, unusual, and fascinating 'biography' of Homer's fictional Bronze Age hero, Odysseus veryone knows something about Odysseus: how he defeated the Trojans in a surprise attack with a massive wooden horse, wandered the Mediterranean seas for years trying to get home, confronted the Cyclops, and killed the suitors of his faithful wife Penelope back at his Ithaca palace. Odysseus turns up everywhere: Homer's epics The Iliad and The Odyssey, Tennyson's poem 'Ulysses' (the Roman name for Odysseus), Constantine Cavafy's Ithaca, and more. Even the Coen brothers based a film, O Brother Where Art Thou?, on his voyage. But no one has chronicled Odysseus' life from start to finish-until now. In this entertaining 'biography,' Charles Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure, at the same time portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventuresome life, at times so remote, at times so immediate in the contemporary perspective.
作者简介 Charles Rowan Beye is Distinguished Professor of Classics Emeritus at the City University of New York and has taught at Boston University, Stanford University, and Yale University. The author of numerous books and articles about the classics (particularly Homer and epic poetry), he divides his time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.
媒体推荐 "Born royal, brave, smart, fight at Troy, become enthralled, and finally get home with King Odysseys of Ithaca, lucky you . . ." --
Christopher Logue, Author of All Day Permanent Red"Charles Beye is one of the best Homeric scholars of his generation . . . Homer would have loved this book!" --
William M. Calder III, Professor of Classics, University of Illinois"Charles Beye's
Odysseus is a deep pleasure, entertaining, witty, informative and full of pizzazz." --
Jane Hamilton, Author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World"Conversational and eloquent, racy and reflective." --
Robert Fagles, Translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University"Lively, informative, and great fun: the perfect introduction to Odysseus and the society that shaped his exploits." --
Kirkus Reviews"This lively and entertaining 'biography' will send readers back to the Homeric poems with a renewed appetite for old adventures." --
Robert Hellenga, Author of The Fall of a Sparrow and The Sixteen Pleasures 专业书评 From Publishers WeeklyHomer's Odyssey provides little in the way of a psychological portrait of its hero. Beye, a professor emeritus of classics at CUNY, takes up where Homer left off in this sometimes compelling, sometimes pedantic psychobiography of the earliest Greek hero. Following the outline of The Odyssey, Beye chronicles Odysseus' life from his princely youth in Ithaca and his military exploits and leadership in Troy to his wanderings through the Mediterranean and his final homecoming to resume his place as king in Ithaca. In Beye's account, when Odysseus sets off for home after the Trojan War and 10 years of absence, he has difficulty recalling his wife Penelope's voice and face. Melancholy, he wonders also what kind of person his son, Telemachus, has grown up to be. Beye portrays Odysseus as humble yet "arrogant in his assumption of his own worth," cunning, wise, athletic and courageous, gregarious and sensual, concluding that Odysseus provided an exceptional role model to males in the ancient world. While Beye offers insights into the cultural context in which Odysseus might have grown up, his fictional biography cannot compare to Homer's suspenseful and engrossing tale of a hero's quest for self-discovery. Still, readers taken with Tom Cahill's discussion of Odysseus in Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea might find this a useful follow-up.
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