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- Ithaca, home of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. ==Work== ... compared several passages from the Odyssey to the actual geographical ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- epic poems the Iliad (Ἰλιάς) and the Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια). Throughout ... recorded appearance of the Iliad and the Odyssey, they assume a status apart ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into blank verse, and his ... * Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, 1791 (translations from the Greek). ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- #039; Peace 757; Eustathius on Odyssey 1714) (Mythology dictionary ... Odyssey 12.124 and scholia, noted by Karl Kerenyi, Gods of the Greeks ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 20:54, 22 October 2022
- 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 ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- of this can be seen in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. ===Earthquake and blast simulation=== The geotechnical centrifuge is used for simulating ...11 KB (1,529 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- | Odyssey | 700|nmi|km|-1 off Nova Scotia, Canada | 1988 | 132,000 | |- | Sea Star | Gulf of Oman | December 19, 1972 | 115,000 | |- ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- In the Odyssey, Poseidon is a constant adversary to the titular hero ... Homer, The Odyssey IX; Euripides, The Cyclops. See also: Rose, 244. ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- myths including Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Later Roman legends about ... writings of other ancient authors. In the Odyssey, Ulysses sees Orion hunting ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...27 KB (4,422 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- 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 ...45 KB (6,700 words) - 11:08, 16 August 2023
- * Some titles contain numbers, for example 2001: A Space Odyssey. Should they be sorted as numbers, or spelled out as Two thousand and one? ...14 KB (2,172 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- 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 ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- *The Drums; Jazz Odyssey JO-008/BX2 (France; 2-LP w/inner leaves; instructional, partly spoken) *The Main Man (1976). ASIN: B000000Z1Q ...6 KB (967 words) - 13:25, 1 August 2022
- John T. Biermans, The Odyssey of New Religious Movements, Persecution ... *Biermans, John T. The Odyssey of New Religious Movements, Persecution ...16 KB (2,157 words) - 21:59, 14 November 2022
- the zero-gravity effects employed in 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... it would be 1968's 2001:A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick ...30 KB (4,494 words) - 19:11, 7 February 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,706 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- *Algis, Laukaitis J. 2006. Platte River odyssey: a University of Nebraska ... * Johnsen, Carolyn. 2006. Platte River odyssey: a University of Nebraska ...19 KB (2,928 words) - 01:50, 10 April 2023
- Like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Argonautica was written in hexameters and is comparable to these epic poems. Often, Apollonius paraphrases ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,502 words) - 16:53, 20 July 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,335 words) - 09:22, 28 January 2024
- for Two. Later in 1972, the Magnavox Odyssey was released, the first ... to support multiple games, the Magnavox Odyssey, had two controller inputs. ...26 KB (4,049 words) - 20:12, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- films, including Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, The ... ===2001: A Space Odyssey=== Kubrick spent five years developing his ...59 KB (9,500 words) - 19:51, 9 February 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- 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 ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- ruler of the island of Aeolia. In Homer's Odyssey, Aeolus provides the wandering Odysseus favorable winds to aid him on his journey. ...11 KB (1,668 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- As of early 2009, Mars is host to three orbiting spacecraft: Mars ... In 2001 NASA launched the successful Mars Odyssey orbiter. Odyssey ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- html Creating Special Effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey.] Retrieved June 21, 2008. ===Environmental issues=== Discarded monofilament lines can ...12 KB (1,938 words) - 17:31, 28 March 2024
- * Ludington, Townsend. John Dos Passos : a twentieth century odyssey, Carroll and Graf, 1998. ISBN 0786705272 * Nanney, Lisa. John Dos Passos ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 04:56, 3 August 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- * Riccio, Barry D. 1994. Walter Lippmann - Odyssey of a liberal. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1560000961 * Steel, Ronald. 1980. Walter Lippmann ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- * Fleischhauer, Carl, and Neil V. Rosenberg. Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86. Music in American life. Urbana: ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 06:13, 1 April 2024
- 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 ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- decipher the puzzle, we should recognize in it the odyssey of the human spirit, which in astonishing delusion flees from itself while seeking itself. ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- |publisher=Odyssey Theater Ensemble |title=Death of a Salesman at Odyssey |url=http://www.odysseytheatre ...28 KB (4,477 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- *Parrott, John B. 2003. The Promise: a baseball odyssey. Avoca, Penn: Proteus's Compass Publishers. ISBN 0972855807 *Wilbert, Warren N. 2003 ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- of Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. ==Zoroaster in the Bahá'í Faith== Bahá'ís believe Zoroaster was a "Manifestation ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- The Greeks practiced bride price in archaic times. In the Odyssey, Telemachus complains of the suitors wooing his mother Penelope: ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- * [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 ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- this point using the Greek myth, The Odyssey. For Adorno, the Enlightenment had an element that led to its self-destruction, and consequently ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- *The Mysterious Presence: A Spiritual Odyssey. (2001). University Press of America. *Defense of God. (1999). Paragon House. ISBN 0913757276 ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
