E-book
The Odyssey
Record details
- ISBN: 9781421412467 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1421412462 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xlviii, 418 pages) - Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2005, c2004]
- Copyright: ©2005
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-418). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Trouble at home -- A gathering and a parting -- In the Great Hall of Nestor -- With Menelaos and Helen -- A raft on the high seas -- Laundry friends -- The warmest welcome -- Songs, challenges, dances, and gifts -- A battle, the Lotos, and a savage's cave -- Mad winds, laistrugonians, and an enchantress -- The land of the dead -- Evil song, a deadly strait, and forbidden herds -- A strange arrival home -- The house of the Swineherd -- Son and father converging -- Father and son reunited -- Unknown in his own house -- Fights in the Great Hall -- Memory and dream in the palace -- Dawn of the death-day -- The stringing of the bow -- Revenge in the Great Hall -- Husband and wife at last -- Last tensions and peace. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Odysseus (Greek mythology) -- Poetry Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
