Record details

• ISBN: 0451527364
• ISBN: 9780451527363
• Physical Description: ix, 304 pages ; 18 cm
• Publisher: New York : Signet Classic, 1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

I. What Went On in the House of Odysseus 11 -- II. How the Council Met in the Market-place of Ithaca; and What Came of It 22 -- III. What Happened in Sandy Pylos 32 -- IV. What Happened in Lacedamon 44 -- V. Hermes Is Sent to Calypso's Island; Odysseus Makes a Raft and Is Carried to the Coast of Scheria 62 -- VI. How Odysseus Appealed to Nausicaa, and She Brought Him to Her Father's House 73 -- VII. What Happened to Odysseus in the Palace of Alcinoos 81 -- VIII. How They Held Games and Sports in Phaiacia 88 -- IX. How Odysseus Visited the Lotus-eaters and the Cyclops 100 -- X. Island of the Winds; the Land of the Midnight Sun; Circe 112 -- XI. How Odysseus Visited the Kingdom of the Dead 124 -- XII. Singing Sirens, and the Terrors of Scylla and Charybdis 138 -- XIII. How Odysseus Came to Ithaca 148 -- XIV. Odysseus and the Swineherd 158 -- XV. How Telemachos Sailed Back to Ithaca 169 -- XVI. How Telemachos Met His Father 181 -- XVII. How Odysseus Returned to His Own Home 191 -- XVIII. How Odysseus Fought the Sturdy Beggar 204 -- XIX. How the Old Nurse Knew Her Master 213 -- XX. How God Sent Omens of the Wrath to Come 226 -- XXI. Contest with the Great Bow 234 -- XXII. Battle in the Hall 243 -- XXIII. How Odysseus Found His Wife Again 253 -- XXIV. How Odysseus Found His Old Father, and How the Story Ended 261.

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Subject:

Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) > Poetry.
Epic poetry, Greek > Translations into English.

Genre:

Poetry.