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Afterword What can I but enumerate old themes? W.B. Yeats This homage to myth and poem grew out of Homer’s Odyssey. Some parts are translation, some parts are adventures upon which Homer is silent, some parts are pure invention. It aims to retell the whole life of the hero, up to a point, for confessions are always works in progress. For those who wish to follow Odysseus back to Ithaka, go to Homer and read from Book VI on and he will take you home. And though the machinery by which the tale ...

This is an excerpt from Odysseus-The Epic Myth of the Hero, a novel length, narrative poem by Marc Ladewig, published by Infinity Publishing,com. Odysseus has left the isle of Calypso and been shipwrecked by the sea god Poseidon. He swims for three days and nights, musing on his life. He goes back to a time long before the Trojan War. His father Laertes sends him abroad upon an embassy to Sparta. Along the way, he meets his future wife Penelope for the very first time. “This said, I sailed fo...

This is an excerpt from Odysseus-The Epic Myth of the Hero, a novel length, narrative poem by Marc Ladewig, published by Infinity Publishing.com. Odysseus has been held captive upon the isle of Calypso for seven years. Zeus has ordered the goddess to free him. Odysseus bids Calypso farewell. Then Calypso, shedding tears as though she were a human woman, spoke these anguished words, “You only feel a prisoner here because you will not bend and be my loving equal, wielding deathless powers over ...

These are the opening lines to a full length narrative poem titled “Odysseus-The Epic Myth of the Hero” by Marc Ladewig, published. by Infinity Publishing.com. Sing about that long lost man for me, dear Muse of epic song, about that man who sacked the sacred citadel of Troy by means of cunning mind when force of arms failed, whose journeys pushed him far and wide to distant shores beyond the ken of wise men of his day, who sought to win homecoming for himself and dear companions, but ended up...

This is the preface to Odysseus-The Epic Myth of the Hero, a novel length, narrative poem by Marc Ladewig, published by Infinity Publishing.com. Take a cup of your sweet favorite O Be Soulful. Wet your lips and read this tale aloud to kith and kin or by yourself to break the glowing silence with a song. You know this myth by heart; the start, the run, the end. The hero here is modern down the ages though he lived one hundred lives ago in ancient Greece. His woes in wave and war could be your ...