Alberto Majrani THE CUNNING HOMER and the ingenious deception of the Odyssey

Who killed the suitors in Homer’s Odyssey?? A careful reading of the epic poem reveals a myriad of clues left by Homer with a surprising conclusion: the mysterious stranger, who arrived in Ithaca after twenty years and that no one was able to recognize was not Ulysses! But then, who could he really be? He was the expert Achaean archer Philoctetes in disguise! With this key, the Homeric poem suddenly assumes a logic and coherence hitherto unsuspected. This explains why Homer continues to praise the art of deception: it is he who has deceived us for three thousand years! And the surprises do not end there: all the apparent inconsistencies of the Iliad and the Odyssey that have plagued students and teachers for generations, known as the "Homeric Question", now fall effortlessly in place. The ancient texts finally agree with historical and archaeological data, fully revealing the genius of their author. Investigating the naturalistic, geographical and astronomical aspects with the right scientific key, it turns out that many myths are not only beautiful fairy tales, but arise from real events whose origin is only now beginning to be glimpsed.

mercoledì 18 novembre 2020

But... was Homer blind? NOOO!!!

 

Was Homer blind? NOOO! In his essay "Greek culture and the origins of European thought", the philologist Bruno Snell highlights how "Homer uses for example a great variety of verbs to denote the operation of sight: ὁρᾶν, ἰδεῖν, λεύσσειν, ἀθρεῖν, θεᾶσθαι, σκέπτεσθαι , ὄσσεσθαι, δενδίλλειν, δέρκεσθαι, παπταίνειν. Of these, several have gone out of use in later Greek, at any rate in prose literature and in the living speech […]. Only two words make their appearance after the time of Homer». I am not here to report the precise meaning of the various verbs, because I should often resort to long turns of words, and whoever wants can easily find the complete explanation on the internet, however it would be really strange if such a lexical richness to express the act of seeing was used by someone who cannot see. https://www.amazon.it/Discovery-Mind-Origins-European-Thought/dp/1621380335


The e-book THE CUNNING HOMER in English (translated by the author) will be ready for Christmas 2022. I thank now who can provide me with useful corrections for my not perfect English. If you are a publisher and you want to publish the book you can contact me! If you are a professional translator and you think you can propose it to a publisher, contact me!

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