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    Homer's poem. Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, first performed in 1640, is an opera by Claudio Monteverdi based on the second half of Homer's Odyssey....
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  • "Homer's Odyssey" is the third episode of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on January...
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    history. Homer's Iliad centers on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles during the last year of the Trojan War. The Odyssey chronicles...
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  • Hobbes, vol. 10 (Homer's Iliad and Odyssey)[1839]". Online Library of Liberty: A Collection of Scholarly Works. Liberty Fund, Inc. 2017. Homer; Dryden, John...
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    Greek mythology, the island home of the hero Odysseus. The specific location of the island, as it was described in Homer's Odyssey, is a matter for debate...
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    was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer's Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years against his will. She promised...
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    offended her, into animals. The best known of her legends is told in Homer's Odyssey when Odysseus visits her island of Aeaea on the way back from the Trojan...
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    Suitors of Penelope (category Characters in the Odyssey)
    Proci) are one of the main subjects of Homer's Odyssey. In the Odyssey, Homer describes Odysseus' journey home from Troy. Prior to the Trojan War, Odysseus...
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    Scylla (category Characters in the Odyssey)
    dangerously close to Scylla and vice versa. Scylla is first attested in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus and his crew encounter her and Charybdis on their travels...
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    Penelope (category Characters in the Odyssey)
    Greek: Πηνελόπεια, Pēnelópeia, or Πηνελόπη, Pēnelópē) is a character in Homer's Odyssey. She was the queen of Ithaca and was the daughter of Spartan king Icarius...
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  • "letters") of Alexandria. Based on the homeward journey of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey, the poem is titled after its namesake island of Ithaca. It is classified...
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  • interpretation of Homer's Odyssey, an epic poem about the journey of ancient Greek hero Odysseus. Alex Henderson at AllMusic gave The Odyssey three stars out...
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  • The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is an epic poem by Greek poet and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis, based on Homer's Odyssey. It is divided into twenty-four...
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    Telemachus (category Characters in the Odyssey)
    is the son of Odysseus and Penelope, who is a central character in Homer's Odyssey. When Telemachus reached manhood, he visited Pylos and Sparta in search...
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    Cyclopes (section Homer)
    Steropes, and Arges, who made Zeus's weapon, the thunderbolt. In Homer's Odyssey, they are an uncivilized group of shepherds, the brethren of Polyphemus...
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    on Homer's Odyssey. Oxford, 1988-92. 3 vols.) Johnson, Laurin R. (1999), Shining in the Ancient Sea: The Astronomical Ancestry of Homer's Odyssey, Portland...
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  • Trek: Odyssey, a Star Trek fan production "Odyssey", a three-part episode of Lassie (1961) "Odyssey", an episode of Smallville "Homer's Odyssey" (The...
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    Emily Wilson (classicist) (category Translators of Homer)
    2018, she became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's Odyssey. Her translation of the Iliad was released in September 2023. She is...
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    Trojan War (section Odyssey)
    15b; Strabo, 6.1.3. Homer, Odyssey 3.191. Virgil, Aeneid 3.400 Scholiast on Homer's Odyssey 13.259. Homer, Odyssey 4.360. Homer, Odyssey 4.382. Apollodorus...
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  • Eurylochus of Same (category Characters in the Odyssey)
    Eurylochus (/jəˈrɪləkəs/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρύλοχος Eurúlokhos) appears in Homer's Odyssey as second-in-command of Odysseus' ship during the return to Ithaca...
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    of Hippotes, was the ruler of the winds encountered by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. Aeolus was the king of the island of Aeolia, where he lived with his...
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  • is a fantasy-adventure film based on Homer's Odyssey. The film tells the story of Ulysses’ attempt to return home after the Trojan War, as well as the...
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    Scheria (category Geography of the Odyssey)
    mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as the home of the Phaeacians and the last destination of Odysseus in his 10-year journey before returning home to Ithaca....
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  • The Return (2024 film) (category Films based on the Odyssey)
    starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. The film is a retelling of Homer’s Odyssey by Edward Bond, John Collee and Pasolini. It is scheduled to be released...
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  • Eurymachus was the son of Polybus, also a suitor of Penelope. In Homer’s Odyssey, Eurymachus, along with the majority of his fellow suitors, shows no...
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  • episodes, events in Homer's life have been linked to specific time periods. "Mother Simpson" (season seven, 1995) depicts Homer's mother, Mona, as a radical...
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    Retrieved 2023-09-26. "AP Film Studies: Homer's Odyssey". Willamette Week. 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2023-09-28. Groening, Homer (1964-05-01), A Study in Wet (Documentary...
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    Greek underworld (category Geography of the Odyssey)
    materials: In Homer's Iliad, the "ghost" of Patroclus makes specific mention of gates and a river (unnamed) in Hades; in Homer's Odyssey, the "ghost" of...
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  • The Lost Books of the Odyssey is a 2007 novel by Zachary Mason, republished in 2010. It is a reimagination of Homer's Odyssey. Mason, who wrote the book...
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  • Nepenthe (category Odyssey)
    drug nepenthe. The word nepenthe first appears in the fourth book of Homer's Odyssey: Figuratively, nepenthe means "that which chases away sorrow". Literally...
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