Odyssey
Homer created the Odyssey between the eighth and tenth centuries BCE; however, the Odyssey was only known orally for centuries before it was written down. Homer constructed the Odyssey’s twenty-four books in dactylic hexameter, which supports in its last foot the sadness of the epic (Cook, p. ... The Odyssey centers around a man named Odysseus, who is also the narrator, trying to find his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. ... “The actual fable of the Odyssey is short… yet the poem is completely interwoven” (Cook p. ... Throughout the Odyssey, Homer gives little detail to the time but specific details to the places. ... “The variations of scene in the Odyssey involve a progression from the young to the mature, from the old to the new, from the simple to the complex, from the hostile to the hospitable, from the natural to the fantastic, from the known Troy far from home to the remote Phaecia whence Odysseus may soon sail for Ithaca” (Cook p. ... Ideas that Homer ignites in the Odyssey are ideas still faced in the modern world. ... “The Odyssey is a superb story… making the household, rather than the battlefield, the center of its world” (Spires p. ... Along with the courtesy of chivalry comes hospitality that causes several fights in the Odyssey. ... There are many different types of famous men mentioned in Homer’s the Odyssey. ... Odysseus has the greatest diversity of all of the characters in the Odyssey. ... Anyone would agree that Odysseus, having a father who sailed with Jason, surely proves himself the hero of the Odyssey.