• Journey to Ithaca is a novel written by Anita Desai, published in 1995. The novel takes its name from a poem by Constantine P. Cavafy. The novel describes...
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  • 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 as a didactic-philosophical...
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  • Anita Desai (category Indian emigrants to the United States)
    Baumgartner's Bombay (1988), Harper Perennial, ISBN 978-0618056804 Journey to Ithaca (1995), Random House India, ISBN 978-81-840007-7-1 Fasting, Feasting...
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  • and attitudes dictate the future of all children: girls are to be married off and boys are to become as educated as possible. The story focuses on the life...
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  • shown by the father's refusal to allow Raja to go to a Muslim university and study Urdu literature because he has cause to fear for his safety. The book...
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    to, Achaemenides is significant for being one of two known members of Odysseus/Ulysses's crew in literature to survive the return journey to Ithaca,...
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  • living by teaching Hindi literature to college students. As his true interest was in Urdu poetry, he jumps at the chance to meet the great Urdu poet, Nur....
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  • 24-minute musical interpretation of Homer's Odyssey, an epic poem about the journey of ancient Greek hero Odysseus. Alex Henderson at AllMusic gave The Odyssey...
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    PMID 17703059. Reina, R. (2014). "Adapted Physical Activity: The journey to Ithaca goes ahead". RICYDE: Revista Internacional de Ciencias del Deporte...
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  • is an alcoholic, which forces Hari and Lila to manage the family. There is a lot of pressure on them due to the constant demand for meeting their needs...
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  • relationship as he goes to the University of Ithaca and she goes to the University of Austin. Eventually their long-distance relationship begins to deteriorate....
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  • interest, to finish a thesis his professors had told him to, Emily goes on a field trip to Mexico with her fellow doctors and scientists to do research...
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  • as he returns home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. The plot recounts the events surrounding the Greek hero Odysseus, his journey home from the Trojan...
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  • where there is a rocky isle called Asteris, to intercept the young prince on his journey back to Ithaca from the hall of Menelaus. The plan, however...
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    David; Hornung, Erik (2010). The Sungod's Journey Through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, pp. 19-20...
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  • Fiction in 2012. The book includes three novellas: The Museum of Final Journeys, Translator Translated and The Artist of Disappearance. Maggie Gee described...
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    who accepts the hospitality of Telemachus and speeds him on his journey from Ithaca to Pylos. The Taphians dealt in slaves. By the time of Euripides, the...
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  • Andreas Lekatsas (category People from Ithaca)
    soon found wealth, and a return journey to Ithaca inspired his nephews Anthony JJ Lucas and Marino Lucas to also move to Australia. Andreas may have taken...
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    Scheria (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Phaeacians and the last destination of Odysseus in his 10-year journey before returning home to Ithaca. It is one of the earliest descriptions of a utopia. Before...
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    Odysseus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    In folkloristics, the story of Odysseus's journey back to his native Ithaca and wife Penelope corresponds to the tale type ATU 974, "The Homecoming Husband" [de]...
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    disease, Homer became blind during the return journey from Ithaca, at Colophon. He then took up poetry in order to make a living. Having failed in a bid for...
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    Siegfried (1960). Egyptian Religion. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. p. 201. Janák, Jiří (2003). "Journey to the Resurrection. Chapter 105 of...
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    was a woman from the island of Ithaca; other than a son, no other family or lineage of hers is preserved. According to an anonymous scholiast on Homer...
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    Odyssey (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. After the war, which lasted ten years, his journey from Troy to Ithaca, via Africa and...
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  • the ancient Greek kingdom of Ithaca, is called to service in the Trojan War after the birth of his son Telemachus, much to the dismay of his wife Queen...
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  • fighting and 10 years of trying to get back home. Rockport is my Ithaca, and coming home has been an Odyssean journey: enduring war and finding beautiful...
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    Telemachus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    return to Ithaca, he found that Odysseus had reached home before him. Then father and son slew the suitors who had gathered around Penelope. According to later...
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  • "Happy Birthday"/"Ocean" "Moon Dance" (Grecian bagpipe music) "The Journey to Ithaca" (poem by Constantine Cavafy) "There Is an Ocean"c Studio recordings...
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    Ithaca Journal. New York, Ithaca. July 20, 1968. p. 25. Retrieved August 13, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. "'Brown's Body' Set at Cornell". The Ithaca Journal...
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    leaving Ithaca, and the reader with this portrait of Ithaca to place Odysseus' homecoming in context and to underscore the urgency of his journey. Homeric...
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