Parody In The Odyssey

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"The Odyssey" is one of the fascinating works in the history of universal literature.
This work, attributed to Homer, is not only dazzling by the events it narrates but by the way in which it narrates them through twenty-four chants or rhapsodies.
The importance of this text lies mainly in being one of the first texts of the Greco-Roman epic, whose emergence occurred around the VIII century BC.
History mixes Greek legend and mythology with historical facts and it is thought that, possibly, history was originally born and traveled through Greece through oral epic poetry for centuries, which is why it is difficult to attribute a single author to it. And it was not until the appearance of the Greek alphabet (in the ninth century BC) that the work

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