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Homer's The Iliad and the Odyssey a biography

Examines "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" from their origins, the colorful characters and events chronicling the Trojan War and its aftermath, and their legacy for Western culture.

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  • "Illiade et l'Odyssée"
  • "Iliad and the Odyssey"@en
  • "Homer, Ilias und Odyssee"
  • "Iliade et L'Odyssée"
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  • "Iliad and the Odyssey : a biography"@en

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  • "L'énigme de la vie d'Homère n'a pas empêché ses deux oeuvres d'être des classiques de la littérature et de traverser les siècles. La lecture qu'A. Manguel propose s'inscrit dans le constat d'un parallélisme entre la vie dans l'Antiquité et la vie contemporaine."
  • "Examines "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" from their origins, the colorful characters and events chronicling the Trojan War and its aftermath, and their legacy for Western culture."@en
  • "Examines "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" from their origins, the colorful characters and events chronicling the Trojan War and its aftermath, and their legacy for Western culture."
  • "The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers often fail to recognise that they were made famous by two epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, and one blind poet: Homer. Alberto Manguel begins his book with the poems' inception in ancient Greece and demonstrates how these poems have reverberated subsequently through the western canon, from the Rome of Virgil and Horace to Joyce's Dublin and Derek Walcott's Caribbean, via Dante and Racine. In this lyrical and graceful short volume, Manguel."@en

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Poetry"@en
  • "Poetry"

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  • "Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey : a biography"
  • "Alberto Manguel über Homer, Ilias und Odyssee"
  • "Homer's The Iliad and the Odyssey : a biography"
  • "L'Iliade & [et] L'Odyssée"
  • "L'Iliade & l'Odyssée"
  • "Gomer : "Iliada" i "Odissei︠a︡""
  • "Homero "Iliada" ir "Odisėja" : knygos biografja"
  • "Iliada e Odisséia de Homero : uma biografia"
  • "Homer's "The "Iliad and The Odyssey" : a biography"
  • "Omero, Iliade e Odissea : una biografia"
  • "Omero Iliade e Odissea : una biografia /cAlbert Manguel ; traduzione dall'inglese di Lucilla Rodinò"
  • "Homer's The Iliad and the Odyssey a biography"@en
  • "Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey : a biography"@en
  • "Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey : a biography"
  • "Omero : Iliade e Odissea : una biografia"@it
  • "Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey a Book That Shook the World"@en
  • "De Ilias en de Odyssee van Homerus : een biografie"

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