"The Odyssey", created almost three thousand years ago in Greek Asia Minor, is, along with Homer's "Iliad", the oldest complete poem in world literature. It is a work that is still easily understandable to today's reader and yet, as a work of art, it always poses challenges.
Uvo Holscher considers the epic of Odysseus in his book as a product of the transition from the pre-literary form of the fairy tale to the refined form of literature, and makes accessible to the reader the peculiarities of this masterpiece of ancient poetry: the archaic thinking about space, the new perception of the environment and the landscape, the dimension of the psychological world, and the themes related to human destiny and the course of human life - and of course, the excellent world of gods and heroes, magicians and monsters.
The work of the great Hellenist from Munich has long become a classic itself. It is addressed to those interested in literature and invites them to accompany Odysseus, the hero of Homer, on his journeys and adventures."