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The Authoress of the Odyssey

Samuel Butler

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. . .uld listen to you," said he, "for a whole twelve months, and never once think about my home and my parents; but my men, whom I have left at Pylos, are already impatient for me to return. As for any present you may make me, let it be a piece of plate. I cannot take horses to Ithaca; it contains no plains nor meadow lands, and is more fit for breeding goats than horses. None of our islands are suited for chariot races, and Ithaca least among them all."

Menelaus smiled, and said he could see that Telemachus 600 came of good family. He had a piece of plate, of very great value, which was just the thing, and Telemachus should have it.

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[Guests now kept coming to the king's house, bringing 621 both wine and sheep, and their wives had put them up a provision of bread. Thus, then, did they set about cooking their dinner in the courts.][11]

Meanwhile, the suitors in Ithaca were playing at quoits, 625 aiming spears at a mark, and beha. . . Read More

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3.00
- Richard - Nov 08, 2013

Just because book espouses a crackpot notion doesn't mean it isn't fun to read or worth your time. Cf., The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw.

3.00
- Richard - Jul 24, 2021

Samuel Butler, author of The Way of All Flesh and translator (to prose) of The Iliad and The Odyssey, believed that The Odyssey was written by a young woman. This is his argument in defense of that theory.

This book feels like the books that try to prove that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare's p

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