The OdysseyRichly imagined by the blind bard around 900 B.C.E., Homers story follows Odysseus on a decade-long journey as he flees the Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the Sirens, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks in exotic cities--ever longing to return to his wife and son. Features a new Introduction. Revised reissue. |
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Achaeans Aegisthus Agamemnon Alcinous answered Ulysses Antinous Argives began brought Calypso cave child of morning Circe cloak cloister crew Cyclops daughter dead dear dinner drink-offering Dulichium eat and drink Eumaeus Euryclea Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes Father Jove fell friends gave ghost give goats goddess gods gone hands head heard heart heaven house of Hades husband Icarius immortal island Ithaca Jove killed king Laertes land Laodamas live look maids matter meat Melanthius Menelaus mind Minerva mother Neptune Nestor never night once Penelope Phaeacians Pisistratus Polybus prayed Pylos reached round sail seat sent servants sheep ship shirt sleep soon sorrow spear spoke stay stranger suitors swineherd Teiresias Telemachus tell Theoclymenus things threw told took town Troy Ulysses Ulysses answered wash whereon wife wind wine woman women