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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.
In 1988, he was invited by Focus on the Family to help develop a radio show for kids, which later became Adventures in Odyssey. [2] He still consults on the show's scripts and writes them on occasion. He has also written 18 tie-in novels, including the "Passages" series. In the late 1990s, McCusker developed Focus on the Family's Radio Theatre. [5]
One such book available at the time was Herbert Gorman's first book on Joyce, which included his own brief list of correspondences between Ulysses and the Odyssey. [20] Another was Stuart Gilbert's study of Ulysses, which included a schema of the novel Joyce created. [21] Gilbert was later quoted in the legal brief prepared for the obscenity ...
The story centres on a group of migrant workers who hail from Eastern Europe, China, Malaysia and Africa and have come to Kent to harvest strawberries for delivery to the supermarkets, and end up living in two small caravans, a men's caravan and a women's caravan. They are all seeking a better life (and in their different ways they are also, of ...
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is an epic poem by Greek poet and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis, based on Homer's Odyssey. [1] It is divided into twenty-four rhapsodies as is the original Odyssey and consists of 33,333 17-syllable verses. Kazantzakis began working on it in 1924 after he returned to Crete from Germany. Before finally publishing the ...
The poem is generally considered to meet the criteria for an epic; it is considerably long, relating over 250 narratives across fifteen books; [14] it is composed in dactylic hexameter, the meter of both the ancient Iliad and Odyssey, and the more contemporary epic Aeneid; and it treats the high literary subject of myth. [15]
Rama II is a science fiction novel by Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1989.It recounts humankind's further interaction with the Ramans, first introduced in Rendezvous with Rama.
Established around 1798 [4] [5] (or possibly 1808 [6]) on the east side of where Clover Creek meets the Ohio River. The town was the site of the ferry where, in 1816, Jacob Weatherholt piloted the family of Abraham Lincoln , then seven, across the Ohio River on its way to a newly acquired farm in Spencer County, Indiana .