Films for the Humanities and Sciences - A Critical Guide to the Odyssey

A Critical Guide to the Odyssey

It is said that every road movie and novel about a defining journey owes a debt to the Odyssey. This imaginative program uses the poem’s division into groupings of books as a framework to allow Dr. Tom Winnifrith, of Warwick University; Dr. Douglas Cairns, of Leeds University; and Ken Dowden, senior lecturer at Birmingham University, to analyze the oral tradition and key elements of the story line. Readings and dramatizations from the Odyssey enhance the discussion of recurrent themes, characterization, relationships, morals, and the cumulative effect of the ten-year journey in shaping and seasoning Odysseus. (31 minutes)

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Item#: FMK9196
Copyright date: ©1999
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-1167-4
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-1736-6

Part of the Series : The Odyssey


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