What is the poem in "The Odyssey"?

Answer 1

The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odusseia) is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca.

It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten year Trojan War [1]. During this twenty-year absence, his son Telemachus and his wife Penelope must deal with a group of unruly suitors who have moved into Odysseus' home to compete for Penelope's hand in marriage, since most have assumed that Odysseus has died.

The poem is a fundamental text in the Western canon and continues to be read in both Homeric Greek and translations around the world. While today's version of The Odyssey is usually a printed text, the original poem was an oral composition sung by a trained bard, in an amalgamated Ancient Greek dialect, using a regular metrical pattern called dactylic hexameter. Each of the 12,110 hexameter lines of the original Greek consists of six feet; each foot is a dactyl or a spondee. Among the most impressive elements of the text are its strikingly modern non-linear plot, and the fact that events are shown to depend as much on the choices made by women and serfs as on the actions of fighting men. In the English language as well as many others, the word odyssey has come to refer to an epic voyage.

Answer 2

the whole thing. I'm reading it right now coincidentally. It's not a rhymer, it's prose translated from ancient Greek. A tale probably told to large audiences, written by Homer (might be more than one Homer) about the voyage home of the heroes of the sack of Troy. It's a Greek tragedy

Answer 3

LOL. jogs my memory of the Dorothy Parker quip whilst she grew to become into asked for a couplet with the word 'horticulture' in it. She pronounced... you are able to lead a horticulture, yet you are able to no longer make her think of!

Answer 4

actually i am reading it right now in my AP English class. its kinda inteesting. its by homer and its about all the stuff that happens in the trojan wars. he wrote them completly by the stories passed down to him and its really good.

Answer 5

Did somebody turn it into iambic pentameter?

Answer 6

Don't know and I really don't care.

Sincerely,
Meghan

Answer 7

the poem (or epic) is the story, i read it last year...i dont understand ur question...r u asking wut the epic is about?