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  2. Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    The Odyssey (/ ˈ ɒ d ɪ s i /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia) [2] [3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books.

  3. List of Homeric characters - Wikipedia

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    Agamemnon takes her from Achilles in Book 1 and Achilles withdraws from battle as a result. Chryseis, Chryses’ daughter, taken as a war prize by Agamemnon. Clymene, servant of Helen along with her mother Aethra. Diomede, a slave woman of Achilles' whom he took from Lesbos. Hecamede, a woman taken from Tenedos and given to Nestor. She mixes ...

  4. Ancient Greek literature - Wikipedia

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    The book takes the form of a tour of Greece, starting in Athens and ending in Naupactus. [117] The scientist of the Roman period who had the greatest influence on later generations was undoubtedly the astronomer Ptolemy. He lived during the 2nd century AD, [118] though little is known of his life.

  5. Homeric scholarship - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, Lachmann's 1847 Betrachtungen über Homers Ilias ("Studies on Homer's Iliad") argued that the Iliad was a compilation of 18 independent folk-lays, rather as the Finnish Kalevala actually was, compiled in the 1820s and 1830s by Lönnrot: so, he argued, Iliad book 1 consists of a lay on Achilleus' anger (lines 1-347), and two ...

  6. English translations of Homer - Wikipedia

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    Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.

  7. Greek literature - Wikipedia

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    This time period is divided into the Preclassical, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. Preclassical Greek literature primarily revolved around myths and include the works of Homer; the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Classical period saw the dawn of drama and history.

  8. Geography of the Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands (Ithaca and its neighbours). There are also incidental mentions of Troy and its house, Phoenicia, Egypt, and Crete, which hint at a geographical knowledge equal to, or perhaps slightly more extensive than that of the Iliad. [1]

  9. Iliad - Wikipedia

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    The 1954 Broadway musical The Golden Apple, by librettist John Treville Latouche and composer Jerome Moross, was freely adapted from the Iliad and the Odyssey, resetting the action to America's Washington state in the years after the Spanish–American War, with events inspired by the Iliad in Act One and events inspired by the Odyssey in Act Two.