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  1. Background

    There is no scholarly consensus on the date of the composition of the Odyssey. The Greeks began adopting a modified version of the Phoenician alphabet to write down their own language during the mid-8th centur… See more

    Synopsis

    The Odyssey begins after the end of the ten-year Trojan War (the subject of the Iliad), from which Odysseus (also known by the Latin variant Ulysses), king of Ithaca, has still not returned because he angered Poseidon, … See more

    Structure

    The Odyssey is 12,109 lines composed in dactylic hexameter, also called Homeric hexameter. It opens in medias res, in the middle of the overall story, with prior events described through flashbacks and storytelling… See more

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