The Odyssey - Homer - Samuel Butler

The Odyssey Tends To Be Blander İn Expression And Sometimes More Diffuse İn The Progress Of İts Action, But İt Presents An Even More Complex And Harmonious Structure Than The Iliad. The Main Elements Are The Situation İn Ithaca, Where Penelope, Odysseus’ Wife, And Their Young Son, Telemachus, Are Powerless Before Her Arrogant Suitors As They Despair Of Odysseus’ Return From The Siege Of Troy; Telemachus’ Secret Journey To The Peloponnese For News Of His Father, And His Encounters There With Nestor, Menelaus, And Helen; Odysseus’ Dangerous Passage, Opposed By The Sea-God Poseidon Himself, From Calypso’s İsland To That Of The Phaeacians.