文档介绍：Homer’s Odyssey
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Content
1. Background
2. Character of Odyssey
3. Outline
4. Synopsis
(Cyclops, Circe, Underworld,
Sirens, Calypso, Ithaca)
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1. Background
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad.
The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the oldest.
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2. Character of Odyssey
Odysseus' s heroic trait is his cunning intelligence; he is often described as the "Peer of Zeus in Counsel."
When being the opposition of the gods, Odysseus is shrewd, tough, clear-sighted, experienced. And he is intensely self-reliant, confident of his own powers against the buffetings of fate.
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3. Outline
The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War.
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4. Synopsis–Cyclops
On their way home, the god of the sea, Poseidon, was angry with Odysseus for blinding his son Cyclops, and then curses Odysseus to wander the sea for ten years, during which he would lose all his crew.
They suffered the storm and pletely annihilated. Finally with his wit and courage only Odysseus’s ship escaped.
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Odysseus gets Polyphemos drunk and escapes