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The narrative epic, ‘The Odyssey’ composed by Homer between 750 and 650 BC recounts the nostos or homeward voyage of Odysseus
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Written Commentary The Odyssey By: Homer Pritam Narula October 14, 2005 IBHL English A1 Ms. Andrews, P5 Narrative Section: Telemachy BOOK I: A GODDESS INTERVENES If I were you, I should take steps to make these men disperse. Listen, now, and attend to what I say: 320 at daybreak call the islanders to assembly, and speak your will, and call the gods to witness: the suitors must go scattering to their homes. Then here's a course for you, if you agree: get a sound craft afloat with twenty oars and go abroad for news of your lost father- perhaps a traveller's tale, or rumored fame issued from Zeus abroad in the world of men. Talk to that noble sage at Pylos, Nestor, then go to Menelálos, the red-haired king 330 at Sparta, last man home of all the Akhaians. If you should learn your father is alive and coming home, you could hold out a year. Or if you learn that he is dead and gone, then you can come back to your own dear country and raise...
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