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More info The poem «Odyssey» by the legendary poet of Ancient Greece Homer is one of the greatest works of world literature. Dangerous adventures of the cunning and long-suffering Odysseus (he, passionately striving home to Ithaca, will have to engage in single combat with Poseidon, visit the country of cruel cannibals and the island of the sorceress Kirka, and then go to the threshold of the kingdom of the dead), the tender feelings of the heroes and passions raging on the pages of the poem, the legend and the mystery that surrounds the past, and finally, the very language in which Homer’s poem is written, is unusually imaginative and vivid — all this again and again attracts the attention of new readers, inspires poets and artists. Annotation The personality of the legendary ancient Greek poet Homer still remains a mystery, but it is he who is considered the author of the greatest monuments of world literature — the Iliad and the Odyssey, which have passed the test of time with glory. His poems had a tremendous impact on world literature, enriched poetry with a canonical dimension — a hexameter, and gave food to historians of everyday life and customs of that era. Odyssey contains the story of the adventures of a mythical hero named Odysseus during his return to his homeland at the end of the Trojan War, as well as the adventures of his wife Penelope, who was expecting her husband on Ithaca. The poem has inspired many artists and sculptors to create their immortal masterpieces. …
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