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  2. Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Claude Gallota's ballet Ulysse, [99] based on the Odyssey, but also on the work by James Joyce, Ulysses. [100] Jorge Rivera-Herrans' sung-through work Epic: The Musical tells the story of the Odyssey over the course of nine "sagas", beginning with the end of the Trojan War and carrying through to Odysseus' homecoming to Ithaca. [101] [102]

  3. Odysseus - Wikipedia

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    The story of stringing a bow is similar to the description in the Ramayana of Rama stringing the bow to win Sita's hand in marriage. [72] Virgil's Aeneid has evident similarities to the Odyssey. Virgil tells the story of Aeneas and his travels to what would become Rome. On his journey he endures strife comparable to that of Odysseus.

  4. Gods in The Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    In the Odyssey, Poseidon is a powerful and respected elder god, as none of the other Olympian gods dare to mention Odysseus and his predicaments whilst Poseidon is there to hear it. The council of gods that decided to set Odysseus free from Calypso’s island was held when Poseidon was accepting a sacrifice in Ethiopia.

  5. Ulysses (novel) - Wikipedia

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    These traditional beliefs, however, are less important that the main level of Joyce’s myth: the story of Stephen Dedalus and Mr. Bloom in Dublin or the present, the particular, and the personal. Ulysses is a narrative composition of three levels, to which, by allusion, Joyce added others of less importance. His myth is not the Odyssey but ...

  6. Katabasis - Wikipedia

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    Odysseus consults the soul of the prophet Tiresias in his katabasis during Book 11 of The Odyssey. A katabasis or catabasis ( Ancient Greek : κατάβασις , romanized : katábasis , lit. 'descent'; from κατὰ ( katà ) 'down' and βαίνω ( baínō ) 'go') is a journey to the underworld .

  7. Calypso (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Calypso (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ p s oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Καλυψώ, romanized: Kalupsō, lit. 'she who conceals') [1] was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer's Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years against his will.

  8. Aeolus (son of Hippotes) - Wikipedia

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    Aeolus. In Greek mythology, Aeolus (Ancient Greek: Αἴολος, Aiolos), [1] the son of Hippotes, was the ruler of the winds encountered by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.Aeolus was the king of the island of Aeolia, where he lived with his wife and six sons and six daughters.

  9. Argos (dog) - Wikipedia

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    Argos is a major aspect of the "watchdog motif" found throughout the Odyssey, where watchdogs are used as symbols for something else; Argos represents the dilapidation of Odysseus's oikos. Elements of Argos's story echo, sometimes word for word, parts of the poem related to Odysseus's son Telemachus.