The Odyssey of HomerMacmillan, 1906 - 429 pages |
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Page xiv
... sail from Crete . Lotus - land , therefore , being ten days ' sail from Malea , was well over the limit of the discovered world . From this country Odysseus went on till he reached the land of the lawless Cyclôpes , a pastoral people of ...
... sail from Crete . Lotus - land , therefore , being ten days ' sail from Malea , was well over the limit of the discovered world . From this country Odysseus went on till he reached the land of the lawless Cyclôpes , a pastoral people of ...
Page xv
... sail from Ithaca . In the Isle of Aeolus Odysseus abode for a month , and then received from the king a bag in which all the winds were bound , except that which was to waft the hero to his home . This sort of bag was probably not ...
... sail from Ithaca . In the Isle of Aeolus Odysseus abode for a month , and then received from the king a bag in which all the winds were bound , except that which was to waft the hero to his home . This sort of bag was probably not ...
Page xix
... sailing , Odysseus will reach Scheria , and the hospitable Phaeacians , a people akin to the Gods , who will convey him to Ithaca . Hermes accomplishes the message to Calypso . DAYS 8-12-32 ( Book v ) . These days are INTRODUCTION . xix.
... sailing , Odysseus will reach Scheria , and the hospitable Phaeacians , a people akin to the Gods , who will convey him to Ithaca . Hermes accomplishes the message to Calypso . DAYS 8-12-32 ( Book v ) . These days are INTRODUCTION . xix.
Page xx
... sails for eighteen days , and on the eighteenth day of his voyage ( the twenty- ninth from the beginning of the action ) , he sees Scheria . Poseidon raises a storm against him , and it is not till the thirty - second day from that in ...
... sails for eighteen days , and on the eighteenth day of his voyage ( the twenty- ninth from the beginning of the action ) , he sees Scheria . Poseidon raises a storm against him , and it is not till the thirty - second day from that in ...
Page 7
... sailing over the wine - dark sea , unto men of strange speech , even to Temesa * , in quest of copper , and my cargo is shining iron . And there my ship is lying toward the upland , away from the city , in the harbour of Rheithron ...
... sailing over the wine - dark sea , unto men of strange speech , even to Temesa * , in quest of copper , and my cargo is shining iron . And there my ship is lying toward the upland , away from the city , in the harbour of Rheithron ...
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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