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*greek* –>
Ὀδύσσεια
odýsseia
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*pronounced [o.dýs.sej.ja] in ‘classical attic’*
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(the odyssey is 1 of 2 major ‘ancient greek epic poems’ attributed to ‘homer’)
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(it is, in part, a sequel to the iliad)
(the other work ascribed to ‘homer’)
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(the odyssey is fundamental to the ‘modern western canon’ + is the 2nd-oldest ‘extant work’ of ‘western literature’)
(‘the iliad’ being the ‘oldest’)
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(scholars believe the odyssey was composed in ‘late 700s BCE’, somewhere in ‘ionia’)
(which is the greek coastal region of ‘anatolia’)
(the poem mainly focuses on the greek hero ‘odysseus’)
(known as ‘ulysses’ in ‘roman myths’)
*’odysseus’ was ‘king’ of ‘ithaca’*
*story of his journey home (to ‘ithaca’ after the ‘fall of troy’*
(which preceded the famous ‘fall of rome’)
(it takes ‘odysseus’ 10 years to reach ‘ithaca’ after the decade-long ‘trojan war’)
(in his absence, it is assumed ‘odysseus’ has died, and his wife ‘penelope’ + son ‘telemachus’ must deal with a group of ‘unruly suitors’ – the mnesteres / (*greek – Μνηστῆρες) / ‘proci’, who compete for penelope’s hand in marriage)
(the odyssey continues to be read in the ‘homeric greek’ + translated into ‘modern languages’ around the ‘world’)
(many scholars believe the ‘original poem’ was composed in an ‘oral tradition’ by an aoidos (an ‘epic poet’ / ‘singer’) – perhaps a ‘rhapsode’ (aka ‘professional performer’) – + was more likely intended to be ‘heard’ than ‘read’)
(the details of the ‘ancient oral performance’ + the story’s conversion to a ‘written work’ inspire continual debate among scholars)
(the odyssey was written in a ‘poetic dialect’ of ‘greek’ — a ‘literary amalgam’ of (‘aeolic greek’ / ‘ionic greek’ / other ‘ancient greek dialects’))
(the poem comprises 12,110 lines of ‘dactylic hexameter’)
(smong the most noteworthy elements of the text are its ‘non-linear plot’ + the influence on events of choices made by ‘women’ + ‘slaves’, besides 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’)
(the odyssey has a ‘lost sequel’ (the telegony), which was not written by ‘homer’)
(it was usually attributed in antiquity to ‘cinaethon’ (of ‘sparta’))
(in one source, the telegony was said to have been stolen from ‘musaeus’ by either ‘eugamon’ (or ‘eugammon’) of ‘cyrene’)
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*’cyclic poets’*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥