Stories from the Odyssey relates three adventures of Odysseus and his crew on their ten-year journey home to Ithaca (off the western coast of mainland Greece) after the Trojan War of around 1200 BC. In the first story they are in great danger from the man-eating giant, the Cyclops. Odysseus is clever, plays a trick on the Cyclops and they escape.
While it is unknown if there ever was a man named Homer, there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature, feeding our imagination for over two and a half millennia. The Iliad and The Odyssey, with their tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Ulysses and Penelope, the Sirens, the Cyclops, Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods, are familiar to most readers because they are so pervasive. From Plato to Virgil, Pope to Joyce, the poems have been told and retold, interpreted and embellished. In this graceful and sweeping book, Alberto Manguel traces the lineage of the poems from their inception and first recording.
Follow Odysseus as he hides in the Trojan horse and retakes Troy, fights the Cyclops, or fights enslavement by the sorceress Circe. In MYTHOLOGY OF THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY, author Karen Bornemann Spies details the heroic adventures in both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and includes informative interpretation and expert commentary, as well as a Question and Answer section. This book is developed from THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY to allow republication of the original text into ebook, paperback, and trade editions.
This second volume of a massive three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes special discussions of diction in the Odyssey and the tradition of epic diction in general.
When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it's unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? To find out, a manned spacecraft, the Discovery, is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained--the best--and they are assisted by a self-aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL's programming has been patterned after the human mind a little too well. He is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and he controls every single one of Discovery's components.
When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it's unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? To find out, a manned spacecraft, the Discovery, is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained--the best--and they are assisted by a self-aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL's programming has been patterned after the human mind a little too well. He is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and he controls every single one of Discovery's components.
