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The Adventures of Ulysses

Charles Lamb

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The Adventures of Ulysses | Charles Lamb

The Adventures of Ulysses

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Lamb used Homer’s Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses’s journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the preface that, “I have gained a rapidity to the narration which I hope will make it more attractive and give it more the air of a romance to young readers”.
thy mind. Thou canst be none other than Ulysses, renowned above all the world for wisdom, whom the Fates have long since decreed that I must love. This haughty bosom bends to thee. O Ithacan, a goddess wooes thee to her bed."

[Illustration: 'Who or what manner of man art thou?']

"O Circe," he replied, "how canst thou treat of love or marriage with one whose friends thou hast turned into beasts? and now offerest him thy hand in wedlock, only that thou mightest have him in thy power, to live the life of a beast with thee, naked, effeminate, subject to thy will, perhaps to be advanced in time to the honour of a place in thy sty. What pleasure canst thou promise which may tempt the soul of a reasonable man? Thy meats, spiced with poison; or thy wines, drugged with death? Thou must swear to me that thou wilt never attempt against me the treasons which thou hast practised upon my friends." The enchantress, won by the terror of his threats, or by the violence of that new love which she felt kindling in her veins for him, swore by Styx, the great oath of the gods, that she meditated no injury to him. Then Ulysses made show of gentler treatment, which gave her hopes of inspiring him with a passion equal to that which she felt. She called her handmaids, four that served her in chief, who were daughters to her silver fountains, to her sacred rivers, and to her consecrated woods, to deck her apartments, to spread rich carpets, and set out her silver tables with dishes of the purest gold, and meat as precious as that which the gods eat, to entertain her guest. One brought water to wash his feet, and one brought wine to chase away, with a refreshing sweetness, the sorrows that had come of late so thick upon him, and hurt his noble mind. They strewed perfumes on his head, and, after he had bathed in a bath of the choicest aromatics, they brought him rich and costly apparel to put on. Then he was conducted to a throne of massy silve

A 08/03/2024
Enthralling book, which I read slowly to get the best out of it. Lovely illustrations, and annotations.
It's a bit sad that the annotations were not directly connected to teach words as hypertext.
But it was a still good read, exciting advnture
Isoude 05/05/2022
Better read the original The Odyssey. I understand Lamb wanted to make it more accessible for a younger audience, but he removes to much of the interesting style of Homer. He changed the narrative to chronological, while what Homer did was way more interesting. He also changed a lot of details for n
Jim 10/16/2018
It was fun going through Ulysses adventures again, but this isn't the way to do it. The adventures are taken from the "Odyssey" & his name in Greek is Odysseus. OK, this is the Latin version so his name is Ulysses & so I'd expect the gods & goddesses to use their Latin names. They did - sometimes -
Mark 02/08/2018
I read this as supplemental material for Ulysses, since it was Joyce's first introduction to the character. What really made it interesting was the comparison between this English school adaptation from the 19th century, and Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey, released in 2017. Lamb's version
Andre 12/29/2016
(...) to imagine that prospective penitence can excuse a present violation of duty...

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