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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Features Samuel Butler's translations of the two Homeric epics comes with a ribbon bookmark, gilded edges and beautiful endpapers. Ideal to be read and treasured, it makes for a perfect addition to any library. The oldest extant works of Western literature, Homer s the Iliad and the Odyssey are an important part of the Greek culture. The Iliad gives a detailed poetic description of the war of Troy and expounds the battle and the events during the...
63) Ithaca
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Series
Songs of Penelope volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door. No one man is...
65) La odisea
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Monstruos de todo tipo, barcos perdidos en alta mar, catástrofes naturales, peleas, disfraces, ingenio... La Guerra de Troya ha terminado. Por fin, Ulises puede regresar a Ítaca junto a su amada Penélope y su hijo Telémaco. Pero los dioses no están dispuestos a facilitarle las cosas, y pondrán en su camino todo tipo de obstáculos.
Presents a retelling of Homer's epic in graphic novel format that describes the wanderings of Odysseus after the...
66) The odyssey
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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
The ancient Greek hero Odysseus fought for nine long years in the terrible siege of Troy. Now, all he wants is to go home to his wife and son. But the voyage is long and perilous, and the god of the sea is his enemy. Will he ever see his home and family again? A graphic novel version of Homer's work.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The best-selling author of The Lost presents the story of a father and son's transformative shared journey in reading in the wake of the father's late-in-life enrollment in his son's undergraduate seminar, where the two engaged in debates over how to interpret Homer's classic masterpiece.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Set sail for adventure with these stormy Greek legends Jason's uncle Pelias has seized the throne of Argos. Before Jason can take his rightful place there, he must retrieve a magical the Golden Fleece. To capture this treasure, he gathers a ship full of Greek war heroes. But as they set off for the fleece, many dangers lie ahead. Odysseus, captain of the Greek army, has won a decade-long war. Now he faces his greatest leading his men home. His journey...
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