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The ""Odyssey


Blooms Guides

No. of pages 176

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Great for age 11-18 years
The second of the two great epic poems attributed to Homer, this poem takes place after its hero, Odysseus, sacked the sacred citadel of Troy and describes his perilous, 10-year voyage home.

 

This book is part of a book series called Blooms Guides .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Chelsea House Publishers .

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University.

This book contains the following story:

The Odyssey
After ten bloody years the war with Troy is over - the Greeks have destroyed the city. Now it is time for Odysseus and the other Greeks to return to their kingdoms across the sea. But his voyage takes another ten years and he must face many dangers - Polyphemus the greedy one-eyed giant, Scylla the six-headed sea monster, the witch Circe who turns his men into pigs, the stupefied Lotus-Eaters and the enmity of the sea-god Poseidon himself- - before he is reunited with his wife and son

This book is in the following series:

Blooms Guides

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