Odysseus Returns Home

Author : Homer
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : 0141026294

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Odysseus Returns Home by Homer Pdf

After war and strife, a mighty king's troubles are only just beginning . . . After ten years at war and ten years wandering the world, Odysseus has finally returned home. But he cannot reveal his identity to his faithful wife Penelope. A gang of would-be lovers are pestering her to marry one of them - and are prepared to kill anyone who claims to be her husband. Now Odysseus must use all his cunning and ingenuity to get rid of them, if he is to reclaim his wife and his rightful place as King of Ithaca once and for all.

Author : I. M. Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0816700168

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The Return of Odysseus by I. M. Richardson Pdf

Odysseus returns at last to Ithaca where he rids his house of the evil suitors, is reunited with Penelope, and visits his aging, grieving father.

Author : Zachary Mason
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429952490

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The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason Pdf

A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-08T01:55:23Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:C7B927A4CDF5D3A7

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The Odyssey by Homer Pdf

The Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes the Iliad. It was originally written in ancient Greek, utilizing a dactylic hexameter rhyme scheme. Although this rhyme scheme sounds beautiful in its native language, in modern English it can sound awkward and, as Eric McMillan humorously describes it, resembles “pumpkins rolling on a barn floor.” William Cullen Bryant avoided this problem by composing his translation in blank verse, a rhyme scheme that sounds natural in English. This epic poem follows Ulysses, one of the Greek leaders that brought an end to the ten-year-long Trojan war. Longing for home, he travels across the Mediterranean Sea to return to his kingdom in Ithaca; unfortunately, our hero manages to anger Neptune, the god of the sea, making his trip home agonizingly slow and extremely dangerous. While Ulysses is trying to return home, his family in Ithaca is also in danger. Suitors have traveled to the home of Ulysses to marry his wife, Penelope, believing that her husband did not survive the war. These men are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : I. M. Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 081670015X

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The Return of Odysseus by I. M. Richardson Pdf

Odysseus returns at last to Ithaca where he rids his house of the evil suitors, is reunited with Penelope, and visits his aging, grieving father.

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian
ISBN : 0140912002

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Penguin Epics by Various Pdf

View every book in the Penguin Epics series. This beautiful limited edition boxed set contains the stunningly designed new Penguin Epics series: twenty short tales of human adventure, legend and myth. Penguin Epics depict the most extreme acts of heroism, ambition, bravery and violence, and in doing so they reveal mankind's most profound aspirations and darkest fears. From the rip-roaring exploits of Alexander the Great, through Dante's terrifying description of the Descent into Hell, to the swashbuckling adventures of Sindbad, these works will take the reader on a journey through the most astonishing and heroic legends of the past four-and-a-half thousand years of literature. The boxed set includes: The Epic of Gilgamesh Exodus Odysseus Returns Home Homer Xerxes Invades Greece Herodotus The Sea, The Sea Xenophon The Abduction of Sita Jason and the Golden Fleece Apollonius The Destruction of Troy Virgil The Serpent's Teeth Ovid The Fall of Jerusalem Josephus The Madness of Nero Tacitus Cupid and Psyche Apuleius The Legendary Adventures of Alexander the Great Beowulf Siegfried's Murder Sagas and Myths of the Northmen The Sunjata Story The Descent into Hell Dante King Arthur's Last Battle Malory The Voyages of Sindbad @UrukRockCity All the ladies want to get it on now that I've slain the demon. But I must decline. I'm a clean man these days. I just can't win with women. Before, nailing all the ladies was bad. Now I refuse to seduce, and the Gods send a giant bull to kill me? From

Author : Homer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198788800

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Odyssey by Homer Pdf

Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time.

Author : Jeanie Lang
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781531265458

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Stories from the Odyssey by Jeanie Lang Pdf

In the days of long ago there reigned over Ithaca, a rugged little island in the sea to the west of Greece, a king whose name was Odysseus. Odysseus feared no man. Stronger and braver than other men was he, wiser, and more full of clever devices. Far and wide he was known as Odysseus of the many counsels. Wise, also, was his queen, Penelope, and she was as fair as she was wise, and as good as she was fair.

Author : Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015025044416

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Alfred Lord Tennyson, a Memoir by Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson Pdf

Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007545148

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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 by Daniel Mendelsohn Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece.

Author : Thomas Bulfinch
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 2419 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Bulfinch's Mythology (布爾芬奇的神話故事選集) by Thomas Bulfinch Pdf

Bulfinch's Mythology

Author : Translated By Alexander Pope Homer
Publisher : Book Jungle
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : 1604240687

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The Odyssey of Homer by Translated By Alexander Pope Homer Pdf

The Odyssey is the sequel to the Illiad in which the Greek hero Odysseus has many adventures in his travels. After the fall of Troy Ulysses (the name the Roman's gave Odysseus) returns to Ithica. During the nine years of the Trojan War and the subsequent eleven years it takes Odysseus to return home, his wife Penelope has to deal with a group of disruptive suitors.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781407066271

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The Odyssey by Homer Pdf

Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront him? This rich and beautiful adventure story is one of the most influential works of literature in the world.

Author : Peter Oswald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783192434

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Odysseus by Peter Oswald Pdf

After ten years at war, Odysseus returns to Ithaka to find his palace in the hands of violent men. These mortal enemies are overcome but the ghosts of war are not so easily vanquished. Drawing on the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, and loosely following the model of classical Greek drama, Peter Oswald explores the personal journey behind the fantastic one, and asks what it means to be a hero.

Author : B. A. Hoena
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736824987

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Odysseus by B. A. Hoena Pdf

Provides an introduction to the character of Odysseus and his importance in Greek mythology.