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Homer: Odyssey Books XIX and XXCambridge Greek and Latin Classics The Odyssey, besides being one of the world's first and best adventure stories, is a poem of great subtlety, rich in irony and sophisticated characterisation. The poet's art is amply illustrated by books XIX and XX, in which Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, spends the night in his own palace and lays plans for his awesome revenge. Particularly memorable is the episode in which Penelope converses with her husband

decline from the golden age

000 years ago

equipping students further with the skills to tackle ever more difficult verse passages at first sight

29–37 and 59 (et posito metu …)–65

especially Stoicism

After the initial exercises

ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity

including the Metamorphoses

How to Get Over a Breakup presents an unabashedly modern prose translation of Ovid’s lighthearted and provocative work

and perils he faced at every turn

Enslaved as concubine – war-wife – to King Agamemnon

as well as reflecting on ancient critiques of it