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  • Ithaca, home of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. ==Work== ... compared several passages from the Odyssey to the actual geographical ...
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  • epic poems the Iliad (Ἰλιάς) and the Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια). Throughout ... recorded appearance of the Iliad and the Odyssey, they assume a status apart ...
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  • his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into blank verse, and his ... * Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, 1791 (translations from the Greek). ...
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  • #039; Peace 757; Eustathius on Odyssey 1714) (Mythology dictionary ... Odyssey 12.124 and scholia, noted by Karl Kerenyi, Gods of the Greeks ...
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  • was discovered on a couch with Aphrodite (Odyssey 8.361). Though Ares' ... In the myth sung by the bard in the hall of Alcinous (Odyssey viii ...
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  • of the classical authors (Homer's The Odyssey and Jason and the Argonauts ... the Sirens takes place in Homer's The Odyssey. Upon leaving the island ...
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  • of this can be seen in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. ===Earthquake and blast simulation=== The geotechnical centrifuge is used for simulating ...
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  • Butler developed a theory that the Odyssey came from the pen of a young Sicilian woman, and that the scenes of the poem reflected the coast of ...
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  • | Odyssey | 700|nmi|km|-1 off Nova Scotia, Canada | 1988 | 132,000 | |- | Sea Star | Gulf of Oman | December 19, 1972 | 115,000 | |- ...
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  • In the Odyssey, Poseidon is a constant adversary to the titular hero ... Homer, The Odyssey IX; Euripides, The Cyclops. See also: Rose, 244. ...
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  • myths including Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Later Roman legends about ... writings of other ancient authors. In the Odyssey, Ulysses sees Orion hunting ...
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  • main hero in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key ... In the Odyssey, Book XIX (405-411) we learn that Odysseus' name ...
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  • most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration ... Not only was it the basis for A Space Odyssey, but "The Sentinel ...
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  • * Some titles contain numbers, for example 2001: A Space Odyssey. Should they be sorted as numbers, or spelled out as Two thousand and one? ...
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  • In the book, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of ... *May, Gita. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in ...
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  • *The Drums; Jazz Odyssey JO-008/BX2 (France; 2-LP w/inner leaves; instructional, partly spoken) *The Main Man (1976). ASIN: B000000Z1Q ...
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  • John T. Biermans, The Odyssey of New Religious Movements, Persecution ... *Biermans, John T. The Odyssey of New Religious Movements, Persecution ...
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  • the zero-gravity effects employed in 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... it would be 1968's 2001:A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick ...
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  • around a sacred oak. When Homer's epic, The Odyssey, was composed (c. 750 B.C.E.), divination was done there by barefoot priests called Selloi ...
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  • Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist contains a letter in which he uses A Modest ...
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