... The Odyssey" is an exercise in the meaning of story telling through song and other aspects in "The Odyssey," including lying and the lore, as I shall explain. Homer's "The Odyssey," is basically the story of the wanderings of Odysseus, but it is not in the form of a continuous narrative that this story is told. Clearly, "The Odyssey" incorporates materials that are older than the poem itself, and foremost among them in all likelihood was the ... , and in the course of "The Odyssey," Odysseus takes on many identities. According to W. F. Jackson Knight in this regard: When Odysseus reached ...

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