Zlatko mandzuka biography for kids

Zlatko Mandzuka
AuthorHouse (May 29, )
Softcover$ (pp)

Clarion Rating: 5 out of 5

In this mesmerizing and extraordinarily researched book, part memoir, part literary thesis, the author traces Odysseus’s adventure both in an academic setting and on the open sea.

Author Zlatko Mandzuka set out to “follow the trail of Odyssey oars and to sail all the areas that [are believed] to have been visited by Odysseus.” Demystifying the Odyssey is his account of that adventure, and the research that led him to sail not the vast distances from the Hellespont to the Pillars of Hercules, as most scholars suppose Homer’s hero is depicted as having journeyed, but along the coast of the Adriatic, whose archipelago the author believes the storied Greek sailor actually visited.

Mandzuka has studied and written extensively about ancient Greece and its most famous poet.

He devotes half of his book to making his case that “the ancients did not simply dream up illogic