The poem, with close to half a million lines, is twenty times longer than Homer "s Odyssey and one of the longest epics in the world."

这首诗歌，接近50万行，是荷马的《奥德赛》(Homer “ s Odyssey)诗歌的20倍，也是世界上最长的英雄史诗之一。”

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In fact, the work is a kind of philosophical odyssey that both imitates Homer, but also anticipates other great odysseys of the human mind, works by those like Cervantes or Joyce.

事实上，这部作品多少像是哲学的探索过程,双双仿效荷马，但也为其它的人性探索过程,预做了准备，作品可参见塞万提斯及乔依斯的著作。

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So there were all kinds of attempts to read Homer, for example, the Iliad or the Odyssey as allegories for physical science.

比如说，希腊人尝试过用各种方法去解读《荷马史诗》，把《伊利亚特》或《奥德赛》解读为包含科学寓意。

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They are steeped in the entire literary tradition of the underworld journey that stretches from The Odyssey of Homer up through Virgil's Aeneid, and of course up through all of the Renaissance romance epics.

它们被浸泡在整套文学传统中,穿越了从荷马的《奥德赛》上升到,维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》的地下之旅，当然它也经历了所有文艺复兴时期的浪漫史诗。

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And as if this were not enough, near the very end of his life, he returned to his classical studies translating all of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

这好像还不够，在他晚年的时候，他又回到了对经典的研究,翻译了荷马的《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》

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In fact, the work is a kind of philosophical odyssey that both imitates Homer, but also anticipates other great odysseys of the human mind, works by those like Cervantes or Joyce.

事实上，这部作品多少像是哲学的探索过程,双双仿效荷马，但也为其它的人性探索过程,预做了准备，作品可参见塞万提斯及乔依斯的著作。

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