![]() ![]() Another well done collaboration by the H-Team. In each of the stories, I found something new, a tidbit of information an idea or thought, enhancing the entertainment. The authors present the events of Homer in a manner that not only renders them more believable more human, but they also wondrously elicit the emotions and anguish of each tale, breathing even more life into the well known mythic version. The same holds true for Circe, the Sirens and Calypso their stories too, shed the supernatural causes and bring the reader into the depths of the suffering experienced at the hands of the Hero of Troy. So, we find Polyphemus, not as a man eating ogre, but as a wronged shepherd someone we can find pity for. ![]() One might ask, ‘why another book about Troy another book about Odysseus?’ Well, in answer to that question, I would say, ‘because of the variety of ways the story can be told.’ In A Sea of Sorrow we have that variety – here are told the tales of Odysseus without the elements of mythical monsters or capricious gods and goddesses not that the monsters and gods are missing from the stories but are only in the minds and beliefs of the participants of the tale. ![]()
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