The Odyssey in inglese

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5 scenes from “The Odyssey”, in story order and without the ending.

1 / 5Penelope al telaio1 / 5Penelope al telaio

1. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITIONpagina 1
2. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITIONpagina 8
3. BOOK Ipagina 10
4. BOOK I (continua)pagina 19
5. BOOK IIpagina 28
6. BOOK II (continua)pagina 36

Ancora nessuna recensione.

1. -700

   Oral epic committed to writing

   After centuries of oral performance by travelling bards using formulaic verse, the twenty-four books of the poem were set down in the newly adopted Greek alphabet around the late eighth or early seventh century BC.

2. -200

   Standardised at the Library of Alexandria

   Hellenistic scholars, most notably Aristarchus of Samothrace, collated wildly differing manuscripts to establish the canonical twenty-four-book division and text that survived antiquity.

3. 1488

   First printed edition in Florence

   The scholar Demetrius Chalcondyles edited the editio princeps of Homer's works in Greek, bringing the epic into the European print era.

4. 1615

   George Chapman's complete English verse translation

   Chapman published his landmark English translation of the Odyssey in rhyming couplets, a version that centuries later inspired John Keats's famous sonnet.

5. 1900

   Samuel Butler's plain prose rendering

   Determined to strip away archaic Victorian ornamentation, Samuel Butler published 'The Odyssey, Rendered into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original', having argued in his 1897 book 'The Authoress of the Odyssey' that the poem was actually written by a young Sicilian woman.

   The Authoress of the Odyssey (1897)

1. 1640

   Scena Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

   Claudio Monteverdi composed one of the earliest modern operas in Venice, adapting the final books of the poem to dramatise Odysseus's tense reunion with Penelope.

2. 1829

   Arte Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus

   J. M. W. Turner painted Odysseus's gilded ship sailing into a blazing sunrise as the blinded Cyclops writhes on the cliff above, now a centrepiece of London's National Gallery.

3. 1891

   Arte Ulysses and the Sirens

   John William Waterhouse depicted Odysseus bound upright to his mast while his ears-plugged crew row past winged sea-nymphs, creating one of the most reproduced images of the poem.

4. 1954

   Film Ulisse

   Mario Camerini directed Kirk Douglas as the bearded hero and Silvana Mangano in a dual role as both Penelope and Circe in a lavish Italian sword-and-sandal epic.

5. 1969

   Musica Tales of Brave Ulysses

   The British rock band Cream released this psychedelic track inspired by Odysseus's encounters with the Sirens and Aphrodite, famous for Eric Clapton's pioneering use of the wah-wah pedal.

6. 1997

   Serie The Odyssey

   Andrei Konchalovsky directed a two-part television miniseries starring Armand Assante that brought the full sweep of the sea voyages and the slaughter of the suitors to broadcast audiences.

7. 2000

   Film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

   Joel and Ethan Coen transplanted the epic to Depression-era Mississippi, recasting Odysseus as an escaped convict, the Cyclops as a one-eyed Bible salesman, and the Sirens as river washerwomen.

8. 2020

   Gioco Immortals Fenyx Rising

   Ubisoft's open-world adventure game weaves Homer's myths into interactive puzzles, including recreation of Odysseus's legendary feat of shooting an arrow cleanly through twelve axe heads.

9. Nella lingua An odyssey

   The Greek title 'Odysseia' entered everyday language as a common noun meaning any long, wandering, and eventful journey.

10. Nella lingua Between Scylla and Charybdis

    Odysseus's passage through the narrow strait guarded by a six-headed monster and a deadly whirlpool gave English its classic idiom for being trapped between two equally perilous choices.

11. Nella lingua Siren song

    The enchanting island singers who lure sailors to shipwreck on the rocks gave us the term for an appeal that is hard to resist but fatal if heeded.

12. Nella lingua Mentor

    When Odysseus sails for Troy, he leaves his son Telemachus in the care of his trusted friend Mentor—whose shape the goddess Athena takes to guide the boy—turning the character's name into the standard word for a wise adviser.