@article{338869,
      author = {Hall, Edith,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/338869},
      title = {The return of Ulysses : a cultural history of Homer's  Odyssey /},
      publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press,},
      abstract = {The travels and travails of Homer's resourceful hero have  thrilled countless generations of listeners and readers,  who for almost three millennia have breathlessly followed  his voyage home from Troy to Ithaca. Edith Hall explains  our enduring fascination with this epic in terms of its  extraordinary openness to adaptation and reinterpretation.  Not only has the narrative been read to reflect a wide  range of intellectual and aesthetic agendas, but it has  been perhaps uniquely fertile in generating new artistic  forms. Creative responses to the Odyssey have included the  tragedies of classical Athens and the burlesque of  Aristophanes as well as more recent genres such as  travelogue, science fiction, the novel, opera, film,  children's books, and detective stories. Hall traces  fifteen key themes in the Odyssey to illuminate the  innumerable ways it has affected the cultural  imagination.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {338869},
      pages = {vii, 296 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      address = {Baltimore :},
      year = {2008},
}