Get to know the characters before watching the film | The Odyssey by Emily Wilson [84KTDlD2Zd0]
The Odyssey is, along with The Iliad, one of the two oldest works of literature in the Western tradition. It is an epic poem: “epic” both in the sense that it is long, and in the sense that it presents itself as telling an important story, in the traditional, formulaic language used by archaic poets for singing the tales of gods, wars, journeys, and the collective memories and experience of the Greek-speaking world. Here we talk about the version of The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson. Homer’s Odyssey, probably composed around 700BC, is one of the oldest poems in the western tradition, with a concomitantly long history of translation. The first into Latin was in the third century BC by a slave called Livius Andronicus. The first into English was by George Chapman in 1614-15; there have been at least 60 others. This is the first by a woman. #theodyssey #odyssey #emilywilson #swapnilpatil #books #bookreview #booktube Join this channel to get access to perks: Follow me on Twitter: Follow me on Instagram: Follow me on Letterboxed: Follow me on goodreads: