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  • Benedict FlynnTHE ADVENTURES OFODYSSEUSWhen Paris, Prince of Troy, stole the most beautiful womanin the world, Helen of Sparta, from her husband, it was an insult that couldnot be left unavenged. From all over Greece, warriors in their thousands, andtheir tens of thousands, descended on Troy to rescue her. Great heroes andbrave men fell in that bitter struggle, but after ten long years the walls ofTroy still stood, and still the Greeks remained in their great camp on theplain below the city. Then suddenly the Greeks were gone. In the middle of thenight, without a sound, they launched their ships and left the camp deserted.All that remained was a huge wooden horse, a gift to the gods from the Greeks. Victory was theirs at last, thought the Trojans, the war wasover, andthey wheeled the horse through the gates of the city tocelebrate. But the wooden horse contained a terrible secret. Under cover ofdarkness Greek warriors emerged from their hiding place inside its belly. TheTrojans had no warning of the attack. No time to gather their soldiers togetheras more Greek warriors poured into the city. Troy fell to the Greeks in a flashof flame and a splash of blood. The Adventures of Odysseus is the story of what happenedafter that; how Odysseus, the most cunning of all the Greek heroes, left Troyand made his way back home to his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. A poet named Homer nearly three thousand years ago firsttold it. Homer wandered from town to town in Ancient Greece reciting his poem;everyone — noblemen, merchants, farmers — would pay to listen to him. The Taleof Troy, the story of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans and how itbegins comes to us through The Iliad, another poem that Homer would recite, socalled because Ilium was another name for Troy. Both poems tell of a time before even Homer lived, whenbronze, not iron, was used for weapons. It was a Heroic Age. Gods and mortalsmingled and wonderful deeds were done. Yet the poems are not all fairy story;there really was a city called Troy. Odysseus takes a long time to reach home because he angersPoseidon, the god of the sea. The gods were very real for the people to whomHomer recited his poems. They were the way the ancient Greeks explained theirworld. They believed the gods were always around them. Mostly they wereinvisible or disguised, and they constantly interfered in human affairs. Thegods might call up a good wind or a storm or send a mortal to sleep. Ifsomething strange happened a god was probably behind it. Athene, the goddess of wisdom and courage, was Odysseus’special protectress. Zeus, the thunderer, was the father of thegods, and the most powerful. He sat enthroned on Mount Olympus from where heruled the stormy sky with his thunderbolts. Heroes were the children of amortal and a god. Odysseus counted Zeus as one of his ancestors, but he was adifferent kind of hero. He was strong and brave like other heroes, but his mostimportant quality was his cunning. Odysseus was the last of the Greek heroes.After him, the gods no longer mixed with mortals. When Odysseus arrived homethe age of legends ended and history began.Notes by Benedict FlynnCassette Information Benjamin Soames Benjamin Soames trained at LAMDA. Since then he has beenactive on both stage and screen, appearing in the popular television seriesSharpe and Absolutely Fabulous as well as the television films Heavy Weatherand England, My England. He has toured worldwide in the acclaimed Cheek By Jowlproduction of Measure For Measure. The Music The music on this cassette taken from the NAXOS and MARCOPOLO catalogsMAHLER SYMPHONY NO l 8.550522 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz SCHUMANN SYMPHONY NO 3 8.553082 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice), Antoni Wit GLAZUNOV STENKA RAZIN 8.553538 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Konstantin Krimets KHACHATURIAN GAYANNE SUITES NOS 1-3 8.550800 St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Andre Anichanov D’INDY ORCHESTRAL WORKS 8.223659 Wurttemberg Philharmonic, Gilles Nopre/Jean-Marc Burfin BLISS FILM MUSIC 8.223315 Czecho-slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava), Adriano DEBUSSY NOCTURNES 8.550262 BRT Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels, Alexander Rahbari Music Programming by Nicolas Soames
  • • 作品列表
    • • CD01
      • 作品编号：22971  The Adventures of Odysseus

      • The Fall Of Troy And The Greek Homecoming

      • Years Later - Odysseus Is Shipwrecked On Nausicaa's Island

      • The Lotus Eaters

      • Polyphemus, The Cyclops

      • Odysseus Begins To Plan

      • Aolia And The Bag Of Winds

      • The Laestrygonians

      • Circe

      • The Underworld

      • CD02
      • 作品编号：22971  The Adventures of Odysseus

      • The Sirens

      • Scylla And Charybdis

      • Thrinakia

      • Calypso

      • Meanwhile, Back In Ithaca

      • Zeus, On Mount Olympus

      • How Odysseus Returns To Ithaca

      • Telemachus Prepares At The Palace

      • The Beggar Stood Up