{"product_id":"approaches-to-teaching-homers-odyssey-9781603297097","title":"Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA guide to teaching the Odyssey through contemporary questions and approaches\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamous for its characters--the clever, unscrupulous Odysseus; the resilient, proud Penelope; and their young son, Telemachus, beginning his own life's journeys--the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e is also well known as a set of fantastic tales and as a reflection of the ethos of Archaic Greece. This volume will help instructors introduce students to topics such as oral epic traditions, the relationship of the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, and kinship structures. It grapples directly with issues that concern instructors and students today, from the epic's value system and cultural norms to its portrayals of violence, slavery, and misogyny. Essays employ feminism, postcolonialism, and popular culture such as television, games, and comics and address a wide range of classrooms, from world literature courses to high schools and a prison. Readers will also learn about teaching responses to the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e by writers from Dante to contemporary American poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume contains discussion of Dante's \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, Linda Pastan's \"On Re-reading the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e in Middle Age,\" and Theocritus's \"The Cyclops.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lillian E. Doherty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Language Association of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Approaches to Teaching World Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.07h x 6.07w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781603297097","brand":"Modern Language Association of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45606481100937,"sku":"9781603297097","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_c03f8e15-7fe1-4b7e-aae2-1dd7ed7567dc.jpg?v=1776752486","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/approaches-to-teaching-homers-odyssey-9781603297097","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}