Homer´s Odyssey and the human condition

Abstract

The present article seeks to look at Homer’s work not as an epic narrative about the figure of a classic hero, but as the attempt, the first attempt, in fact, to speak about the life of a man with the pretension of discussing the human condition. From the story told by Ulysses himself, we can better understand the first perceptions about human reality, about how to be truly human, from the point of view of Western culture.