When he had reached the age of nine, Calchas declared that Troy could not be taken without his aid, and Thetis knowing that this war would be fatal to him, disguised him as a maiden, and introduced him among the daughters of Lycomedes of Scyros, where he was called by the name of ...
Homer, Odyssey 10. 1 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "[Odysseus tells the tale of his wanderings :] We came to the Aiolian (Aeolian) island (nesos Aiolios); here lived Aiolos (Aeolus) Hippotades (son of Hippotas); the deathless gods counted him their friend. ...
Below you can listen toDavid Creese, a classicist from the University of Newcastle, playing “an ancient Greek song taken from stone inscriptions constructed on an eight-string ‘canon’ (a zither-like instrument) with movable b...
Analyzes the figure of Odysseus in the Odyssey. Argues that the protagonist develops as a human being over the course of the poem, eventually becoming “a hero with a special moral authority.” Yet the new, more “philosophical” Odysseus never fully replaces the “older, wilier” character....
Zeus punished him for this by giving him a lingering old age, without the boon of sight. He even robbed him of such pleasure as he might have got from the many dainties which neighbours kept bringing to his house when they came there to consult the oracle. On every occasion the Harpy...
Some Translations The Choephoroe of Aeschylus, translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray; Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Ewmenides, rendered into English verse by G. M. Cookson; The Birds of Aristophanes, as arranged for performance in the original Greek at Cambridge, translated...
This research attempts to investigate qualitatively and within the context of teaching of students of A'class of Gymnasium in the Odyssey and teachers who teach the Odyssey, the relationship between cognitive performance with teaching materials "Seafaring and civilizations of the Odyssey" and "Odysseus...
Through many generations the memory of the heroic age and the feats performed by their ancestors in their lost homeland was preserved and handed down to the following ages, only later to be codified by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Felice Vinci offers a key to open many doors that ...
celebrating the style of the Athenian golden age. It is no accident that military characters like Nicephorus Bryennius (eleventh and twelfth centuries) and Joannes Cinnamus (twelfth century) emulated Xenophon in the precision of their diction, or that a philosopher like Nicephorus Gregoras (thirtee...
Homer, Odyssey 18. 193 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "The fragrant balm that Kytherea [Aphrodite] puts on when she enters the bewitching circle of dancing Kharites (Graces)."Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 58 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.)...