What does "The Odyssey" poem say?

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

It just details the trip Odysseus takes getting home from the Trojan War---he gets forced into all sorts of detours and adventures, meeting all sorts of mythological creatures and beautiful women, wandering all over the Mediterranean Sea, until he finally gets back home to Greece, where everyone thinks he is dead, and his infant son has grown to manhood, and his wife Penelope is being pressured to re-marry. He has changed so much that only his dog recognizes him. In the climax to the story he kills all the suitors to his wife, and re-claims his family and kingdom as his own. It is considered a more artistic poem than THE ILIAD.

Answer 3

"The Odyssey" is an epic, a long poem written by Homer in Greek. It is lengthy and says quite a bit. Read it and find out.

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

It wasn't that he had changed so much that he wasn't recognised. He actually disguised himself as a beggar.

Answer 6

Read it and you'll know, or wait until they publish "Greek Classics for Morons".

Answer 7

Ya, that's what it says.

Answer 8

it is like a story stupid

Answer 9

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