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The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis

The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis

Odysseus Elytis

THEODORAKIS1 The Myrtle Tree On the Secret Seashore Gloria from the Axion Esti HADJIDAKIS2 Birds A Virgin Mary MOUSTAKI3 The Immigrant G. GUSTIN-M . TEZE Monsieur Cannibale 1. "Theodorakis": a great contemporary composer, ...
Walt Whitman & Odysseus Elytis: Beyond Being and Time

Walt Whitman & Odysseus Elytis: Beyond Being and Time

Katerina Andriotis

Through the use of extensive research, The work suggests that there is a common ground that Whitman and Elytis share, that is to say, their philosophy on language and poetry.
Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus ...

Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus ...

Marinos Pourgouris

Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and surrealist writers in Europe.
Odysseus Elytis: Selected Poems, 1940-1979

Odysseus Elytis: Selected Poems, 1940-1979

Odysseas Elytēs

This representative selection from the work of one of modern Greece's most fascinating poets was made shortly after his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979.
Voices of Modern Greece: Selected Poems

Voices of Modern Greece: Selected Poems

Constantine Cavafy

Poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English and that are also representative of the best work of the original poets--C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, and Nikos Gatsos.
The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy

The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy

Padraic Colum

Retelling of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for young readers recalls the horrid Cyclops, treacherous Sirens, and the evil Circe as they attempt to keep Odysseus from his wife, Penelope. 16 black-and-white illustrations.
Odyssey

Odyssey

Homer

A translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
The Legend of Odysseus

The Legend of Odysseus

Peter Connolly

Site reconstructions, photographs, and other archeological evidence depict the civilization of the Greek world at the time of this legendary story.
The Ancient Greece of Odysseus

The Ancient Greece of Odysseus

Peter Connolly

The trademark of this series are the fictional eyewitness accounts through which the young reader learns first-hand how momentous events of history touch ordinary men and women.
The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Homer

Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home after the Tojan War, while his wife Penelope and his son Telemachos are forced to scheme to protect his throne until his return.
Tales of the Greek Heroes (Film Tie-in)

Tales of the Greek Heroes (Film Tie-in)

Roger Lancelyn Green

. . These are the mysterious and exciting legends of the gods and heroes in Ancient Greece, from the adventures of Perseus, the labours of Heracles, the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, to Odysseus and the Trojan wars.
The Siege and Fall of Troy

The Siege and Fall of Troy

Robert Graves

In this detailed retelling, Robert Graves draws the major characters of this timeless classic in broad, gritty strokes, making Agamemnon, Paris, Odysseus, and others accessible for young readers.
The Unaccompanied

The Unaccompanied

Simon Armitage

The Unaccompanied documents a world on the brink, a world of unreliable seasons and unstable coordinates, where Odysseus stalks the aisles of cut-price supermarkets in search of direction, where the star of Bethlehem rises over industrial ...
As Witnessed by Images: The Trojan War Tradition in Greek ...

As Witnessed by Images: The Trojan War Tradition in Greek ...

Steven Lowenstam

As Witnessed by Images investigates visual depictions of Achillean and Odyssean myth from ca. 650-300 BCE and traces the many messages that the stories of Achilles and Odysseus inspired.
Transactions of the American Philological Association

Transactions of the American Philological Association

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... York and London 1990] 129-61) that Penelope recognizes Odysseus on some level before he kills his rivals. 41 Cf. Garvie (see above, note 7) xi; Victoria Pedrick, "The Hospitality of Noble Women in the Odyssey" Helios 15 (1988) 85- 101.
How to Express Emotions of the Soul and Operations of the ...

How to Express Emotions of the Soul and Operations of the ...

Thomas Gelzer

—(Protocol of the colloquy of the Center for Hermeneutical Studies 1n Hellenistic and Modern Culture. ISSN 0098-0900; 55) Bibliography: p. 20 ISBN 0-89242-056 -1 1. Homer. Odyssey. 2. Homer — Language. 3. Odysseus (Greek mythology) ...
Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989

Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989

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12 Philhellenic Imperialism and the Invention of the Classical Past: Twentyfirst Century Reimaginings of Odysseus in the Greek War for Independence Efrossini Spentzou In 2008 Isidoros Zourgos published Aidonopita (A Nightingale's Pie),1 a ...
No-Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through the Odyssey

No-Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through the Odyssey

Scott Huler

The author of Defining the Wind details his efforts to retrace the footsteps of Odysseus from Troy to Ithaca as recorded in Homer's great epic The Odyssey, following the Greek hero on his journey around the Mediterranean to discover why ...
Where on Earth is Ithaca?: A Quest for the Homeland of Odysseus

Where on Earth is Ithaca?: A Quest for the Homeland of Odysseus

Cees H. Goekoop

With Where on Earth Is Ithaca? Cees H. Goekoop expertly guides readers through the existing scholarship on the whereabouts of the island and details the evidence that still has the power to unite and divide scholars.

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