The Odyssey of HomerMacmillan and Company, limited, 1917 - 429 pages |
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... counsels of the Gods , Odysseus is to be brought home to free his house , to avenge himself on the wooers , and recover his kingdom . The chief agent in his restoration is Pallas Athene ; the first book opens with her prayer to Zeus ...
... counsels of the Gods , Odysseus is to be brought home to free his house , to avenge himself on the wooers , and recover his kingdom . The chief agent in his restoration is Pallas Athene ; the first book opens with her prayer to Zeus ...
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... counsels , placed the staff in his hands . Then he spake , accosting the old man first : ' Old man , he is not far off , and soon shalt thou know it for thyself , he who called the folk together , even I : for sorrow hath come to me in ...
... counsels , placed the staff in his hands . Then he spake , accosting the old man first : ' Old man , he is not far off , and soon shalt thou know it for thyself , he who called the folk together , even I : for sorrow hath come to me in ...
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... counsel , how all might be for the very best . But after we had sacked the steep city of Priam , and had departed in our ships , and a god had scattered the Achaeans ... counsels found favour among them . So that ODYSSEY III , 119–150 . 35.
... counsel , how all might be for the very best . But after we had sacked the steep city of Priam , and had departed in our ships , and a god had scattered the Achaeans ... counsels found favour among them . So that ODYSSEY III , 119–150 . 35.
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Homer. and twofold counsels found favour among them . So that one night we rested , thinking hard things against each ... counsel , once again showing a favour to Agamemnon , son of Atreus . But I fled on with the squadron that followed ...
Homer. and twofold counsels found favour among them . So that one night we rested , thinking hard things against each ... counsel , once again showing a favour to Agamemnon , son of Atreus . But I fled on with the squadron that followed ...
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... counsels answered , and spake unto her : ' Be not wroth with me hereat , goddess and queen . Myself I know it well , how wise Penelope is meaner to look upon than thou , in comeliness and stature . But she is mortal and thou knowest not ...
... counsels answered , and spake unto her : ' Be not wroth with me hereat , goddess and queen . Myself I know it well , how wise Penelope is meaner to look upon than thou , in comeliness and stature . But she is mortal and thou knowest not ...
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abide Achaeans Aegisthus Alcinous Antinous Atreus bade behold beneath black ship Calypso cast chamber Circe counsels answered dear death deathless gods decked ships deeds deep didst doublet drave drew drink Dulichium earth Eumaeus Eupeithes Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus evil fair father feast fell friends gifts goddess godlike grey-eyed Athene halls handmaids hands hath Hephaestus hither hollow ship Homer Icarius isle Ithaca Laertes land lest lord maidens Melanthius Menelaus methinks mighty mother Nestor nigh noble Phaeacians Poseidon pray Pylos raiment renowned sails saying slay sleep smote sorrow spake unto spear spirit steadfast goodly Odysseus stood straightway stranger sweet swift ship swine swineherd Teiresias tell thee thereof Therewith thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thyself took twain verily voice wandering Wherefore wife wind wine winged words wise Penelope wise Telemachus answered wooers Zeus