The Odyssey

The Odyssey by Fiona Macdonald

For a long time, Lynn Latham wanted to know why humans have been performing such forbidden acts of behavior that caused their children to be born with slow learning abilities to almost mental retardation, physical handicaps, prenatal mortality, social problems, malformations, and many other problems. What Latham discovered is that these mental and physical problems the children are having can be stopped if humans will stop performing this forbidden act. He is sickened at what he has discovered. The worst thing is that humans performing this act are not smart enough to realize they are doing wrong. There are many good and respectful humans, but these are not the ones he is referring to in this book.

About the Author

Author Lynn Latham was born and raised on a farm in Oklahoma. He joined the United States Navy at age seventeen. It was in the middle of the Vietnam War. After 21 years in the Navy, he retired. He then took a position as a Federal Civilian employee with the Navy Department and worked another 23 years with them before retiring again. The Navy provided some great training and schools. The Author took college courses at night and finished his Bachelor's degree.

Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.

In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time.

Robert Fagles (1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles's Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus's Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer's Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer's Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid.

Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).

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ISBN 10	0764142763
Title	The Odyssey
Author	Fiona Macdonald
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sourcebooks Explore
Year published	2009-11-12
Number of pages	48
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