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Title: Homer's Odyssey
A Commentary
Author: Denton J. Snider
Release Date: August 11, 2008 [EBook #26275]
Language: English
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Homer's Odyssey.
A Commentary
By
Denton J. Snider
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE
INTRODUCTION 5
I. FIRST TWELVE BOOKS.
TELEMACHIAD 21
ULYSSIAD 121
(1) OCYGIA 129
(2) PHAEACIA 156
(3) FABLELAND 231
II. SECOND TWELVE BOOKS.
ITHAKEIAD 396
BOOKS 13-16 (PREPARATION) 407
BOOKS 17-24 (EXECUTION) 461
(1) WRONG (17-21) 468
(2) PUNISHMENT (22) 495
(3) RECONCILIATION (23-4) 500
SUMMARY 511
_HOMER'S ODYSSEY._
_BOOK FIRST--INTRODUCTION._
The Odyssey starts by organizing itself; it maps out its own structure
in what may be called a General Introduction. Herein lies a significant
difference between it and the Iliad, which has simply an Invocation to
the Muse, and then leaps into the thick of the action. The Iliad,
accordingly, does not formulate its own organization, which fact has
been one cause of the frequent assaults upon its unity. Still the
architectonic principle is powerful in the Iliad, though more
insti
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