“Sing to me of the man, O’ Muse, the man of twists and turns.”
With this line, readers are introduced to Homer’s Odyssey, an epic poem detailing the travails of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, on his ten-year journey home in the aftermath of the Trojan War.
Welcome to the first paid subscriber post of Pugliese’s Paideia - part two of our three-part examination of the classical heroes of Greco-Roman poetry. Part one, focused on an analysis of Achilles, can be found here. Part three will conclude with the triumphs and travails of Aeneas as detailed in Virgil’s Aeneid.
So let us begin.
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