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  • *Algis, Laukaitis J. 2006. Platte River odyssey: a University of Nebraska ... * Johnsen, Carolyn. 2006. Platte River odyssey: a University of Nebraska ...
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  • Like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Argonautica was written in hexameters and is comparable to these epic poems. Often, Apollonius paraphrases ...
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  • legends of King Arthur, and Homer's Odyssey. Most of Tennyson's poetry is didactic. Like the fables of Aesop, they tend to have a moral ...
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  • its political influence. By the time of the Odyssey, the island was already famous as the birthplace of the twin gods Apollo and Artemis. Indeed ...
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  • for Two. Later in 1972, the Magnavox Odyssey was released, the first ... to support multiple games, the Magnavox Odyssey, had two controller inputs. ...
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  • from the book of Genesis to The Odyssey. One of the stories included ... influence of the Epic of Gilgamesh on the Odyssey, the Greek epic poem ascribed ...
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  • films, including Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, The ... ===2001: A Space Odyssey=== Kubrick spent five years developing his ...
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  • accounts of precognitive vision can be found in the Odyssey, where Theoclymenus sees a shroud of darkness about the bodies of a group of doomed suitors ...
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  • used in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The latter ballet's final act features his most famous movement, the Sabre Dance. He ...
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  • His final opera Ulisse, with his own libretto after The Odyssey, was the culmination of his life's work. It was composed over eight years ...
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  • ruler of the island of Aeolia. In Homer's Odyssey, Aeolus provides the wandering Odysseus favorable winds to aid him on his journey. ...
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  • As of early 2009, Mars is host to three orbiting spacecraft: Mars ... In 2001 NASA launched the successful Mars Odyssey orbiter. Odyssey ...
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  • html Creating Special Effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey.] Retrieved June 21, 2008. ===Environmental issues=== Discarded monofilament lines can ...
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  • * Ludington, Townsend. John Dos Passos : a twentieth century odyssey, Carroll and Graf, 1998. ISBN 0786705272 * Nanney, Lisa. John Dos Passos ...
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  • and Days, as well as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The Theogony, which in its surviving form has over one thousand verses, is one of the fullest ...
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  • works of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. The figure of Homer is ... While the Iliad is purely a work of tragedy, the Odyssey is a mixture ...
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  • * Riccio, Barry D. 1994. Walter Lippmann - Odyssey of a liberal. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1560000961 * Steel, Ronald. 1980. Walter Lippmann ...
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  • Homer’s epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, focus on events surrounding ... #039;s two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two accounts provide ...
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  • * Fleischhauer, Carl, and Neil V. Rosenberg. Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86. Music in American life. Urbana: ...
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  • other major work attributed to Homer, the Odyssey, as well as in other ancient ... In recent years scholars have suggested that the Iliad and the Odyssey ...
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  • decipher the puzzle, we should recognize in it the odyssey of the human spirit, which in astonishing delusion flees from itself while seeking itself. ...
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  • was also a popular practice. In the Odyssey (XI, Nekyia), Odysseus makes a voyage to Hades, the Underworld, and raises the spirits of the dead ...
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  • |publisher=Odyssey Theater Ensemble |title=Death of a Salesman at Odyssey |url=http://www.odysseytheatre ...
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  • *Parrott, John B. 2003. The Promise: a baseball odyssey. Avoca, Penn: Proteus's Compass Publishers. ISBN 0972855807 *Wilbert, Warren N. 2003 ...
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  • of Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. ==Zoroaster in the Bahá'í Faith== Bahá'ís believe Zoroaster was a "Manifestation ...
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  • The Greeks practiced bride price in archaic times. In the Odyssey, Telemachus complains of the suitors wooing his mother Penelope: ...
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  • * [http://www.ralphbunche.com/ Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey] * [http://www.state.gov/m/a/ls/ Ralph J. Bunche Library at the U.S. Department ...
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  • this point using the Greek myth, The Odyssey. For Adorno, the Enlightenment had an element that led to its self-destruction, and consequently ...
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  • *The Mysterious Presence: A Spiritual Odyssey. (2001). University Press of America. *Defense of God. (1999). Paragon House. ISBN 0913757276 ...
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  • worked on translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey from 1871 to 1874. He is also remembered as one of the principal authorities on homeopathy and as ...
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  • includes such a scene, and it appears also in the Odyssey. Writing shortly before the birth of Jesus, Vergil included it in the Aeneid. What little is ...
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  • 10-30-vw-11792-story.html Under Fire: An Afghan Odyssey : California Medical Technician and New Jersey Film Maker Give Their Lives Telling Story of ...
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  • in 1672, and a translation of four books of the Odyssey into "rugged" English rhymes that in 1673 led to a complete translation of both Iliad ...
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  • #039;s A Fall of Moondust and also 2001: A Space Odyssey, Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Joanna Russ's 1968 novel Picnic ...
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  • a psychotic breakdown. His educational odyssey took him to Michigan State College (where he was asked to leave due to his involvement with a ...
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  • * Laugharne, Peter J. (ed). Aneurin Bevan - A Parliamentary Odyssey: ... * Laugharne, Peter J (ed). Aneurin Bevan - A Parliamentary Odyssey: ...
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  • with the discovery of cheese. Homer's Odyssey, from the eighth century ... 3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D9%3Acard%3D193 Odyssey Book 9, 193-230] English ...
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  • Art (1991); Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf and the Serbo-Croatian ... to problematic texts such as the Iliad, Odyssey, and even Beowulf, influenced ...
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  • History of Military Medicine Award: The Military Odyssey of Norman Bethune], Military Medicine (April 1999). Retrieved November 22, 2007. ...
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  • Land of Canaan to the Land of Guinea: The Strange Odyssey of the Sons of Ham." American Historical Review 85 (February 1980): 15–43. ...
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  • Homer, Odyssey 1.52; Apollodorus, E7.23 :*Dione, Hyginus, Fabulae 82, 83. :*Maera. Pausanias, Guide to Greece 8.12.7, 8.48.6 ==Notes== ...
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  • the golden road to Samarkand. Hong Kong: Odyssey. ISBN 9622177034 ISBN 9789622177031 *Frye, Richard Nelson. 1996. The heritage of Central Asia ...
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  • Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937]." A Science Odyssey, pbs.org. title=President of the Royal Society|before=Sir Charles Sherrington|after=Sir ...
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  • writing") are modeled on Homer's Odyssey, but the last six are the Roman answer to the Iliad. Aeneas is betrothed to Lavinia, daughter ...
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  • * Schonfield, Hugh J. Essene Odyssey Mystery of the True Teacher and the Essene Impact on the Shaping of Human Destiny. Element Bks, 1993. ...
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  • of the Space Era, 1961-1965. Outward Odyssey. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803211465 * Godwin, Robert, ed. 2005. Apollo 11: First ...
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  • * Corrigan, Gina. 2002. Guizhou. Hong Kong: Odyssey. ISBN 9789622176744 * Corrigan, Gina. 2001. Miao textiles from China. Fabric folios. London: ...
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  • Handbook to Literature (New York, NY: The Odyssey Press, 1960, ISBN 978-8131723012 ... Handbook to Literature. New York, NY: The Odyssey Press, 1960. ISBN 978-8131723012 ...
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  • The Odyssey Bookshop (a fixture in South Hadley for over 40 years), resides directly across from the campus in the college-owned Village Commons ...
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  • Madeleine Albright: A twentieth-century odyssey (Henry Holt and Co., 1999 ... * Dobbs, Michael. Madeleine Albright: A twentieth-century odyssey ...
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  • , Virgil's Aeneid (1875), and Homer's Odyssey (1887). * Morris's book, The Wood Beyond the World, is considered to have heavily ...
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  • Pride of Puerto Rico: The Life of Roberto Clemente. Odyssey Classics, 1991. ISBN 978-0152634209 ==External links== All links retrieved December ...
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  • *Cott, Jonathan, and Lafcadio Hearn. 1991. Wandering ghost: the odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0394571525 ISBN 9780394571522 ...
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  • use in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey), Don Quixote (1897), Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life, 1897–98), Sinfonia Domestica ...
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  • Virgins--Chaste Keepers of the Flame, Archaeology Odyssey, 4(2001): 01. The punishment for violating the oath of celibacy was to be buried alive in the ...
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  • Myth Series. The story is a retelling of The Odyssey from the perspective of Penelope and a chorus of the twelve maids murdered at the end of the ...
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  • Ramayana is still twice as large as the Iliad and Odyssey combined. Traditionally, its authorship is attributed to the Hindu sage who is referred to as ...
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  • the characters and incidents of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin ... to a specific episode in Homer's Odyssey and has a specific color ...
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  • Afsaneh. Some of its elements appear in the Odyssey. The present name Alf Layla wa-Layla (literally a "A Thousand Nights and a Night," i.e ...
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  • in recorded literature. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus crawls beneath ... show it to have been known when the Odyssey was written. ...
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  • Many ancient works, from the Vedas (1700–1200 B.C.E.) to the Odyssey ... Other ancient epic poetry includes the Greek epics, Iliad and Odyssey ...
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  • built House of Erechtheus" (Odyssey 7.81.) It was during that time that an earthquake caused a fissure near the northeastern edge—one ...
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  • texts. Two were translations: Homer's Odyssey, and The Forest Giant—the ... *The Odyssey of Homer. New York, NY: Limited Editions, 1981. ISBN ...
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  • of the Iliad, Pope translated the Odyssey with the help of William Broome and Elijah Fenton. The translation appeared in 1726, but Pope attempted ...
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  • haggis is referred to in Homer's Odyssey, in book 20, when Odysseus is compared to "a man before a great blazing fire turning swiftly ...
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  • Simon Louvish, Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey (Thomas Dunne Books, 2009 ... * Louvish, Simon. Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey. Thomas Dunne ...
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  • In Homer's Odyssey, there is a passage in which Odysseus sails ... *Homer. Odyssey XI, translated by Robert Fagles. NY: Viking, 1996 ...
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  • Roanoke to James Town, An Archaeological Odyssey. (New York: Knopf, 1994. ISBN 0394564464), 125 Smith was apparently accused of mutiny on the ...
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  • *Mack, Mary Peter. Jeremy Bentham: An Odyssey of Ideas 1748-1792. London: Heinemann, 1962. B000JLDCFK *Manning, D.J. The Mind of Jeremy Bentham ...
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  • #039;s versions of Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey. His grandfather also stirred young Howard's interest in what Lovecraft later referred to ...
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  • * Kaku, Michio. 1995. Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension. New York: Anchor Book ...
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  • * Philip, M. Nourbese. Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence. Toronto: Mercury Press, 1991. ISBN 0920544886 * Ross, Andrew, and Andrew ...
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  • and Stanley Harold. The African American Odyssey, Vol. I. Prentice Hall, ... and Stanley Harold. The African American Odyssey, Vol. II. Prentice Hall ...
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  • In the Greek epic poem [Odyssey]], which was probably composed near ... Homer, Odyssey 19:233-234: τὸν δὲ χιτῶν' ἐνόησα ...
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  • * Broadwater, Jeff. Adlai Stevenson and American Politics: The Odyssey of a Cold War Liberal. New York: Twayne, 1994. ISBN 0805777997 ...
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  • Indeed, the Dialectic of Enlightenment uses the Odyssey as a paradigm for the analysis of bourgeois consciousness. Horkheimer and Adorno already present ...
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  • in the score to his 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. == Selected works of Johann Strauss II== === Operettas === listed chronologically within ...
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  • * Lucas, Phillip Charles. The Odyssey of a New Religion: The Holy Order of Mans From New Age to Orthodoxy. Indiana University press, 1995. ISBN ...
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  • Odyssey, VIII, 80. Another legend held that Apollo walked to Delphi from the north and stopped at Tempe, a city in Thessaly, to pick laurel, a ...
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  • There is no me without you: One woman's odyssey to rescue Africa's children. New York: Bloomsbury, 2006. ISBN 978-0747580577 ...
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  • According to the author of Wealth Odyssey, Larry R. Frank Sr., wealth is what sustains you when you are not working. It is net worth, not income ...
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  • Robert Hessen (ed.), Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey ... * Hessen, Robert (ed.). Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual ...
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  • phrases to Fischerspooner's third album, Odyssey. The first volume of Sontag's journals are expected to be published in 2008 or 2009 ...
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  • series on Playstation 1&2. The very rare Sky Odyssey is yet another example of console flight simulators. Due to the restrictive nature of a game ...
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  • Sonja Bullaty reproduced Sudek's description of his odyssey as follows: When the musicians ot the Czech Philharmonic told me: "Josef ...
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  • Homer, Odyssey 5: 125-128; Apollodorus 3.12.1; Simpson, in his notes on Apollodorus's text (18, 189-190), argues that the mythographer misrepresents ...
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  • html The Unfinished Revolution The Odyssey of the Black Loyalists,] The American Revolution. Retrieved June 20, 2007. == New York == ...
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  • verses), the Greek Iliad (over 15,000 verses ) and Odyssey (12,000 verses), and the Indian Ramayana (18,000 odes with two verses each) and Mahabharata ...
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  • Homer, Odyssey. 11.488. ===Cult of Hades=== When the Greeks propitiated Hades, they banged their hands on the ground to be sure he would hear ...
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  • of the islands and their people. Hong Kong: Odyssey. ISBN 9622177700 * Doe, D. Brian. 1970. Socotra; an archaeological reconnaissance in 1967 ...
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  • Coates. Nabokov's blues: The scientific odyssey of a literary genius. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0071373306 (very accessibly written) ...
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  • for enhanced financial aid packages called Odyssey Scholarships, which will eliminate student loans entirely among students whose annual family ...
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  • the lost city of Troy using Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as guides, it became clear that classical sources once regulated to mythology may actually ...
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  • woven of rope, plays a role in the Odyssey. A similar bed can be seen at the St Fagans National History Museum in Wales. Odysseus also gives ...
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  • Nicholas Schaffner. Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey. ... * Schaffner, Nicholas. Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey ...
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  • works of Greek literature, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Wrestlers were also depicted in action on many vases, sculptures, and coins, as well as in other ...
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  • *Pauly, Thomas H, An American Odyssey: Elia Kazan and American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. ISBN 0877222967 ...
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  • and poems, including Oedipus Rex and both the Odyssey and the Iliad) and his wife, Sally, in Redding, Connecticut. In 1951 she was diagnosed with ...
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  • violence. Citing Greek mythology, specifically the Odyssey, they argued that the story illustrates the tragic outcome of reason. The myth describes Odysseus’s ...
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  • Since the release of the film Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey in 1993 ... | title = Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey. | url = | medium = Film and DVD ...
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