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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