The Struggle Of A Returning Soldier In Homer's The Odyssey

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After thousands of years Homer's legendary epic, The Odyssey still remains relevant because of its timeless themes, the inspiration that it provides to artists everywhere, as well as its effect on modern literature and even television. “It is The Odyssey that most directly probes the theme of the war veterans return”(Alexander). Although it is over 2,000 years old it deals with the still prominent issue of a soldiers return home. This aspect of The Odyssey is not only relevant to the modern day teenager, but to everyone old enough to know of the struggle of a returning soldier.“Virgil, Monteverdi, James Joyce, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ralph Ellison and Derek Walcott are just a few of the artists to transform this spellbinding and mysterious epic
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