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Joel P
I found the character development a little wanting, the deities especially seemed somewhat unidinmensional and "larger than life." I also thought the author had difficulty connecting with a modern audience. As for plot development, I found myself wondering what happened to a lot of the surviving characters, like, for instance, Odysseus. And the repetition grew somewhat tedious -- kind of unsuited to the written page.
posted 5 years ago.
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Coalbanks
Try The Oddysey for the fate of the Achaians esp Odysseus. Both were meant to be recited rather than read as a novel (which form had not yet been created) so your complaints are groundless. Books written on the Homeric tales are either pale imitations of the epic poem sor occassionally as red-blooded & vigourous as Homer might have approved of, or novels/screenplays written to meet the expectations of a modern audience. Some are worth seeking out, others are not. Enjoy.
posted 3 years ago.
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Benjamin Edwards
Joel do you realize that the audience that Homer, a Greek poet that wrote 100 years after the events transpired, was targeting were mainly illterate lower class. This was originally meant to be a poem in verse, not a novel. If your talking about the translation, then by all means criticize. But Homer did write the Odyssey the sequal to the events described in the Illiad.
posted 3 years ago.
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Coalbanks
Books written on the Homeric tales are either pale imitations of the epic poems or occassionally as red-blooded & vigourous as Homer might have approved of, or novels/screenplays written to meet the expectations of a modern audience. Some are worth seeking out, others are not. I prefer the poems - in modern English interpretations, not the Akean- as I am, after all, a barbarian.
posted 3 years ago.
