The Odyssey[This book] recounts the wanderings of Odysseus after the Trojay War and his final homecoming to Ithaca, where he found his wife Penelope still faithful to him. It is a fantastical adventure story with a comic tone and a happy ending.-The Reader's Adviser. |
Contents
Telemachus calls an assembly pleads with | 14 |
Menelaus and Helen receive Telemachus | 38 |
Hermes is sent by Zeus to Ogygia to tell Calypso | 58 |
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Achaeans Aegisthus Agamemnon Alcinous Aloud and/or Dramatization Amphinomus ancient Greeks Antinous Argives armor Athene began brought Calypso Circe cloak cloister crew Cyclops daughter dead death dictionary drink offerings Eumaeus Eupeithes Euryclea Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes father friends gave ghost give goddess gods hands heard heart heaven Hephaestus Hermes Homer house of Hades husband Icarius island Ithaca killed King Alcinous Laertes land live look maids matter meat Melanthius Menelaus mind mother Nestor never night Odys Odysseus Odysseus answered once Penelope Phaeacians Pisistratus Poseidon prayed Pylos reached Reading Aloud and/or round sail seat servants sheep ship sleep soon sorrow speak spear spoke stay story stranger suitors swineherd Teiresias Telemachus tell Theoclymenus things told took town Troy wash whereon wife wind wine woman women words young Zeus