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In this entertaining "biography," Charles Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure while portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventuresome life, at times so remote, at times so immediate to contemporary life.
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"Revisited in this biography-by turns conversational and eloquent, racy and reflective-the hero emerges in all his traditional vigor, equipped with the myths and mores of antiquity while voyaging into our own modern world."
Robert Fagles, professor, Princeton University
"As an audiobook, Odysseus: A Life literally and symbolically conjures the oral tradition of the works that inspired it. Its a ripping good yarn…A gutsy and entertaining read by first-timer Mark Bramhall. He adroitly navigates the names of the mythical heroes, parses Beye's fatally digressive prose, and even allows himself to sound so involved in what he's reading that his excitement becomes conta
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"Beye portrays Odysseus as humble yet 'arrogant in his assumption of his own worth,' cunning, wise, athletic and courageous, gregarious and sensual, concluding that Odysseus provided an exceptional role model to males in the ancient world."
Publishers Weekly