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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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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Calypso (mythology) (section The Odyssey)
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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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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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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Circe (section Homer's Odyssey)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Greek epic in film (section Homer's Odyssey)
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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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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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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"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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Aeolus (son of Hippotes) (redirect from Aeolus (Odyssey))
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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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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by the plant Asphodelus, appears in the literature as far back as Homer's Odyssey, where it features in Odysseus' survey of the underworld. Many ancient...
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Ogygia (category Geography of the Odyssey)
island mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, Book V, as the home of the nymph Calypso, the daughter of the Titan Atlas. In Homer's Odyssey, Calypso detained Odysseus...
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a Homeric island in the Ionian Sea, near Ithaca and Cephalonia. In Homer's Odyssey Same is described as part of Odysseus's kingdom together with Ithaca...
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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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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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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 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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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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In Homer's Iliad, Poseidon supports the Greeks against the Trojans during the Trojan War; in the Odyssey, during the sea-voyage from Troy back home to...
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