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The Best of Homer
The Odyssey and The Iliad: Set of 2 Books
Homer
1888
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De Odyssee is een van de meest gevierde heldendichten aller tijden en volgt de reis van Odysseus terwijl hij worstelt om naar huis terug te keren na de Trojaanse oorlog. Vechtend tegen mythische wezens, wraakzuchtige goden en de krachten van het lot, moet hij vertrouwen op zijn sluwheid en veerkracht om zich te herenigen met zijn familie en zijn koninkrijk terug te winnen. De Odyssee is een verhaal over avontuur, loyaliteit en doorzettingsvermogen en verkent de triomfen en beproevingen van de menselijke geest. Van de verraderlijke zeeën en het eiland van de cyclopen tot de zalen van Ithaka, Homerus' blijvende klassieker blijft lezers boeien met zijn aangrijpende verhaal en poëtische schoonheid.

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Homer
Homer
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In the Western classical tradition, Homer (Greek: Ὅμηρος) is considered the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature. When he lived is unknown. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before his own time, which would place him at around 850 BCE, while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BCE. Most modern researchers place Homer in the 7th or 8th centuries BCE. The formative influence of the Homeric epics in shaping Greek culture was widely recognized, and Homer was described as the teacher of Greece. Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds. Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds.

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