Odyssey

The poem "Odyssey", created by the genius of the legendary epic poet of Ancient Greece Homer, is one of the greatest works of world literature, a creation saturated with full-blooded life, vivid fantasy and poetic brilliance. The dangerous adventures of the cunning and long-suffering Odysseus (he, passionately striving to get home to Ithaca, has to engage in single combat with Poseidon, visit the land of cruel cannibals and the island of the sorceress Circe, and then go to the threshold of the kingdom of the dead), the tender feelings of the heroes and the passions raging on the pages of the poem, the legends and secrets that permeate the past, and finally, the very language in which Homer's poem is written, unusually figurative and vivid - all this again and again attracts the attention of new readers, inspires poets and artists.