We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.