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The Odyssey.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)

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From: Kliatt
Date: 20020701
Author:Offner, Susan

THE ODYSSEY. Homer. Read by Roger Rees. Translated by Samuel Butler. 4 tapes. 6 hrs. New Millennium Audio. 1-59007-001-1. $25.00. Cardboard; content, reader notes. JSA

The Odyssey is a grand adventure, one of the great epics of literature. Hero Ulysses goes off to fight the Trojan War and is detained for 20 years and has countless adventures before returning home to his faithful wife, Penelope. The adventures are mainstays of Western civilization: escaping the siren songs, the man-eating cyclops, Hades. And, finally, Ulysses' return to Ithaca and his home is wonderfully ...

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