Bøger af Homer Homer

"Odysseen er beretningen om sagnhelten Odysseus’ lange og farefulde færd fra det belejrede Troja hjem til hans elskede hjemstavn. En beretning, som har gjort Odysseus til den europæiske prototype på en eventyrer. Hans berømte rejse foreligger nu på Otto Steen Dues fortryllende højtlæste dansk.Otto Steen Due (1939-2008), professor, dr.phil., er kendt for sine nyoversættelser af antikkens største værker. Otto Steen Due har bl.a. oversat Ovids Metamorfoser, Eskapader og Elskovskunst, Vergils Aeneide, Homers Odyssé samt en række andre klassiske skrifter. "

"Europæisk historie begynder med Iliaden, der er Homers udødelige epos om achaiske og trojanske helte. Siden har talløse digtere hentet inspiration og materiale fra denne grundfortælling. Den foreligger nu på dansk i Otto Steen Dues indlevede og medrivende oplæsning.Otto Steen Due (1939-2008), professor, dr.phil., er kendt for sine nyoversættelser af antikkens største værker. Otto Steen Due har bl.a. oversat Ovids Metamorfoser, Eskapader og Elskovskunst, Vergils Aeneide, Homers Odyssé samt en række andre klassiske skrifter. "

THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME-NOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD. Homer's Odyssey has been called "the first novel," "the first expression of the mind in literary form," and "the best story ever written." Whether fans of suspense, fantasy or human drama, readers of all ages thrill to Homer's vibrant picture of Odysseus on his decade-long journey, as he meets the lotus-eaters, cunningly flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the sexy Sirens, narrowly escapes Scylla and Charybdis, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks in exotic cities-all the while struggling to make it home to his wife and son. Adventure on the high seas, legendary romance, tests of endurance, betrayal, heroism-the saga has all these and more, imagined by the most famous bard of all time. But, as Aristotle pointed out, "his greatness was that he himself was nowhere to be found in his story. His characters were everywhere." Blind and possibly illiterate, Homer has still "in loftiness of thought surpass'd"* any storyteller since 900 B.C.E. *John Dryden