Book Review: The Odyssey
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- Опубліковано 2 лис 2024
- In today's video I'll be reviewing The Odyssey.
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Odysseus and Telemachus are better known by their rapper names O-Daddy and T-Mack
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I reread The Odyssey in the spring of 2020 when the whole world was in lockdown. There I was, stuck at home, dreaming about being able to go on adventures and reading about a man living an adventurous life desperate to go home. This 3,000 year old story helped get me through the pandemic and I will never forget that experience.
I’m so glad this story was relief during that time for you!
Is it easy to read like a person like me who is just new into books and also English is not my native language so i wanna if the English use is very difficult. s@@alanaestelle2076
If you haven't read these classics, I agree that The Odyssey is very approachable, and the source of so much of Western culture, directly and indirectly (probably in the top 10 most influential works). The Odyssey is a like a fantasy quest (quest of returning home after along absence), and The Iliad is a militant, war drama. Two different genres with several characters in common, like many other Greek plays. Highly recommended!
This is such perfect timing. After reading Song of Achilles earlier this year, I went back to reread The Odyssey and The Iliad. ❤ I can also recommend Mythos and Hero’s by Stephen Fry, although the audiobooks of him reading the books is even better.
Yaaay! I’ve read Stephen Fry’s retelling with the audiobooks and they are so good!
I just got a copy of The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson, and now you drop this video, good omen. I'm all geeked out about a three-thousand-year-old book! It's very cool that you emphasize the pure enjoyment of reading The Odyssey, and letting it be known that it's not just some academic exercise, excellent video.
Perfect timing!!! Thank you! I hope you enjoy reading it!
Alana, I loved The Odyssey, too. It's been said it was written in 12,000+ lines in Hexameter verse, so that's how I approached it. It flowed like honey. I'm currently reading Circe by Madeline Miller, a remarkable read. If you haven't read it, you may want to look into it. Food for thought from one book bum to another. Thank you for the review. As always, well done.
I wasn't fond of Miller's modern style;(.
I’ve read Circe and hated it 😅
Amazing video, will definitely read the Odyssey 😊
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!
Thanks Alana: I think maybe the biggest difference is today men - even people in general - live longer than they did thousands of years ago. Thus, the thirst for adventure, excitement and heroism is balanced against the opportunity of becoming old. To become old and acquire family, wealth, wisdom, and respect is great inducement to exercising rational judgement before joining into combat or going on a quest for adventure and riches. Ulysses makes choices consistent with someone not tethered to the benefits of long and relatively comfortable life.
two things i vibed with most are hospitality as a great theme (zeus knows we need a bit more of the ancient greek version in our world) and agamemnon being a badass name (one of my favs too)
LOL YAS! 🤣🙌🏼 and so true. BRING HOSPITALITY BACK 🤌🏼
If you’ve read Homer and Virgil you should read Ovid! The Metamorphoses is great!
I have it on my shelf!! Definitely one I need to read.
Such a fun review as always!
Thank you!!
Have you read The Aenid? I highly suggest it if you enjoyed both The Iliad and the Odyssey. It felt like a mix of the best parts of both of those for me.
Yes I have! It’s been a while though. I had to read it twice for school.
How many times have you read it? I have not read it yet . . .for some reason I'm saving it?
Three times!! Whaaaat?! You must read it! 🤩
Epictetus would say the only thing you have control over is Reason. The suffering of humans comes in trying to control what is not in our control (externals). Not what we do, but the way we do what we do. How we see it. That is the extent of our choice. It is a Stoic school of thought, but Epictetus (and Marcus Aurelius) does speak of "the gods". In reading a book like this I would keep the stoic viewpoint in mind.
Did you read clash of kings again? Have you finnished the asoiaf serie?
I finished it. Just need to do the review.
q: what translation(s) have you read? Have you read other translations?
I can’t recall off the top of my head. I don’t own my college editions anymore.
What? No update on allergies? No comments on being a minimalist. No thirsty Alana in this review. No "getting hungry here"... I'm so disappointed. I love your ramblings. Thanks for the review. I remember having to read Aeneid. It took a while. I don't know how Nietzsche learned both ancient Greek and Latin. I need to get into my Alpha frequency more often I think. Great review as always.
I was hungry, that’s why I had to get straight to the point. More rambles on the way 🤣
well, you either gets the stomach rumblies, or the just-ate burping
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@@alanaestelle2076 Please, the ramblings are what makes me watch your channel. I mean...of course the books. Actually, would you say BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD is worth $17 plus tax? I ask because I have 2 books in my basket, which I want to read but I need $1 more for free shipping. So, either I get some useless item or a $5 book which I will never read, or actually spend a bit more and buy books I will read. This is making me nervous because I have a whole box of books I still haven't read but Claire Keagan is all over the internet and I have NOT read neither SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE nor FOSTER.
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read both of them back to back as a kid in a trans. by samuel butler and have always preferred the odyssey to the illiad even though the latter is supposed to be the greater book⚛😀❤