Para-narratives in the Odyssey : stories in the frame /

"Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelated to the central story: the main plot of Odysseus' return to Ithaca is complicated by myriad secondary narratives related by the poet and his...

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Main Author: Alden, Maureen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
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