Homer's Odyssey: A Companion to the Translation of Richmond Lattimore By Peter V. Jones
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A commentary with an introduction that describes the features of oral poetry and discusses the history of the text of the Odyssey Jones provides a line by line commentary that explains the many factual details mythological allusions and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Odyssey His notes also enhance an appreciation of the Odyssey by illuminating epic style Homer s methods of composition his characterization and the structure of the work Homer s Odyssey A Companion to the Translation of Richmond LattiHelpful notes on ancient Greek society referenced mythology and explanations for some of Latti s obtuse word choices in his translation of The Odyssey I used this text and The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion to keep track of the the various mythological entities that made their way into Homer s narrative I found Peter Jones work very enlightening in my reading of The Odyssey 0809315475 Essential Jones companion to The Odyssey as translated by Richmond Latti really brought the epic to life I appreciated all the context both literary and historical The nature of oral poetry and epic poetry is illuminated with Jones explanations The writing is forthright and clear without being dry or dull The only caution I would make is that Jones does show the reader how certain events in The Odyssey are linked In doing so he sometimes refers to future events in The Odyssey revealing outcomes before they are reached in the reading Since I was reading the story through for the first time some of the suspense was removed for me because Jones had revealed the outcome This was balanced by the greater knowledge context I had when reading and if I had it to do over again I would use the same approach reading the Jones chapter after finishing the chapter in The Odyssey 0809315475 I read this in conjunction with Lawrence of Arabia s translation of The Odyssey This commentary is a scholarly work while that translation is not a scholarly one lacking even line numbers So I used the commentary loosely to get a sense of the scholarly issues that get raised This added to my appreciation of the story but not a lot Each chapter has an overview of the book in question and then a line by line account of issues that arise in that book I would read the overview and then read the Lawrence translation and then read through the line by line comments This way the comments did not detract from my experience of the story I have read similar commentaries for the Iliad A Companion to The Iliad Based on the Translation by Richmond Latti the Brothers Karamazov A Karamazov Companion Commentary on the Genesis Language and Style of Dostoevsky s Novel and an annotated edition of Walden Walden I used the first two in a similar fashion and was glad to have had them But the annotated edition of Walden had the annotations for passages in the margin so you were always looking at them along with the text That completely detracted from the reading experience for me While I appreciated reading the commentary it never felt like a revelation And I generally felt I could have gotten nearly as much without it Often it would remark on things that one could well figure out for oneself 0809315475
| Homer's Odyssey: A Companion to the Translation of Richmond Lattimore By Peter V. Jones |
| 0809315475 |
| 9780809315475 |
| English |
| 239 |
| Paperback |
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