Classics: Epic Poetry during Homeric Greek and Augustus Rome: "The Odyssey," Homer the hospitality and hostile tribes

the hospitality and hostile tribes of the Mediterranean

re-enforces despair

I thought sexual discrimination was too backward and too stupid to last

Of the forty-three bodies

one who instantly grasps

Classics: Epic Poetry during Homeric Greek and Augustus Rome: "The Odyssey," Homer the hospitality and hostile tribesPossibly the greatest Epic Poem of all time.  Fagles provides an excellent translation adaptable to the HS Classroom.  Written by Homer, and a sequel to The Iliad, the story traces Odysseus, after the Trojan War, and his efforts to "Get Back Home." Many other stories similar to this makes The Odyssey a blueprint archetype for Adventure stories.  In fact the first six books of The Aeneid, by Virgil mirror Odysseus' journey