Crawford Tad - On Wine - Dark Seas A Novel Of Odysseus And His Fatherless Son Telemachus - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A masterful continuation of the journey of Odysseus after he returned home from his odyssey. Here is a brilliant recounting of the life of Odysseus after his safe return to the island of Ithaca his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Countless readers have thrilled to the adventures of Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey but what further adventures awaited him after his ten years of war and ten years of wandering? Narrated by Telemachus to the bard Phemios On Wine - Dark Seas speaks of the human drama of a man gone twenty years from home and family a man who saw Troy on the night of its destruction a man who lives the special quest which is his destiny. In probing the inner journeys of a son and father separated twenty years who must come to terms with each other and their ruthless slaughter of the suitors of Penelope it reveals the doubts and joys of Odysseus Penelope and Telemachus. As Telemachus tells Phemios: My father will be known to the future not as the man he was but as the man of whom you sing. Often at Troy he called himself the father of Telemachus so I too have a part to speak in his story. Wealthy men can pay some poets to chant a story first this way then another. I cannot offer you wealth to hear me but only the truth I know. Now for the first time in paperback this novel is a masterful recreating of the ancient mind the landscape of Greece steeped in mythos and the gods and the human dramas of characters made famous for all time by The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Title: On Wine - Dark Seas A Novel Of Odysseus And His Fatherless Son Telemachus
Author(s): Crawford Tad
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Barcode: 9781956763973
Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Date: 5/21/2024
Category: Historical Fiction