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The making of the Odyssey /

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The poet of the Odyssey was a seriously flawed genius. He had a wonderfully inventive imagination, a gift for pictorial detail and for introducing naturalistic elements into epic dialogue and a grand architectural plan for the poem. He was also a slapdash artist, often copying verses from the Iliad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: West, M. L. (Martin Litchfield), 1937-2015 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Homer. > Odyssey.
Odysseus, > King of Ithaca (Mythological character) > In literature.
Homer > Technique.
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Rhetoric, Ancient.

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