Blomstringstid
Blossomtime!
Liker du våren?
Jeg synes den er så vakker!
... og her kommer et gresk dikt;
A Greek
poem;
Auto ton
logo Ja saV pw,
den ecw allon kanena:
MeJuste me t´aJanato
krasi
tou Eikosiena!
KwstaV Palami
Jeg har
et ord, kun ett å si,
og det skal ikke lyve:
Bli beruset av den udødelige vin
av årgang enogtyve!
Kåstas Palami - og
hvem var nå han?
My
translation from Norwegian;
I have a
word, just one to say,
and it will not lie;
Get intoxicated by the immortal wine
of the year twenty-one!
Kostas Palami -
and who was he?
The Odyssey is, along with the 'Iliad',
one of the two earliest pieces of Greek epic poetry to have
survived, and is a story that many consider central to the evolution
of Western
civilization. Centred upon the eponymous hero 'Odysseus',
it describes the adventures of the great Trojan
War hero as he attempts to get home. Deprived slowly of men,
supplies and eventually his last ship by the Gods (of whom only Athena
remains on his side always) it depicts a very human character and
his desire to return home to his wife Penelope
and his son Telemachus,
whom he had not seen since he set off to war some twenty years
prior.
Added drama revolves around Penelope's
despair of seeing her husband again, and Odysseus' fear that she
will be forced to re-marry in his absence. Additional themes include
how far there can be a father/son relationship when neither know
each other, the loyalty or otherwise of one's servants and the role
of the Gods (the dilemma of being aloof and ignored, or intervening
and making humans dependent)..
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