The Odyssey : the story of Odysseus /
Homer ; translated by W.H.D. Rouse ; with a new introduction by Deborah Steiner.
- New York : Signet Classics, c2007.
- xxiii, 344 pages : illustrations (black and white) ;
- Homer .
Translated from the ancient greek.
Includes index.
Contents: I. What went on in the house of Odysseus -- II. How the council met in the market place of Ithaca; and what came of it -- III. What happened in sandy pylos -- IV. What happened in Lacedaimon -- V. Hermes is sent to Calypso's Island; Odysseus makes a raft and is carried to the coast of Scheria -- VI. How Odysseus appealed to Nausicaa, and she brought him to her father's house -- VII. What happened to Odysseus in the Palace of Alcinoos -- VIII. How they held games and sports in Phaiacia -- IX. How Odysseus visited the Lotus-eaters and the cyclops -- X. The island of the winds; the Land of the midnight sun; Circe -- XI. How Odysseus visited the kingdom of the dead -- XII The singing sirens; and the terrors of Scylla and Charybdis -- XIII. How Odysseus came to Ithaca -- XIV. Odysseus and the swineherd -- XV. How Telemachos sailed back to Ithaca -- XVI. How Telemachos met his father -- XVII. How Odysseus returned to his own home -- XVIII. How Odysseus fought the sturdy beggar -- XIX. How the old nurse knew her master -- XX. How God sent omens of the wrath to come -- XXI. The contest with the great bow -- XXII. The battle in the hall -- XXIII. How Odysseus found his wife again -- XXIV. How Odysseus found his old father, and how the story ended.
Presents Homer's age-old tale of the wanderings of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca after the Trojan War as he overcomes both divine and natural forces.
Adult
Text in English
9780451530684 [newsprint] 0451530683 [newsprint]
2009510801
Epic poetry, Greek.
Epic poetry.
Translated from the ancient greek.
Includes index.
Contents: I. What went on in the house of Odysseus -- II. How the council met in the market place of Ithaca; and what came of it -- III. What happened in sandy pylos -- IV. What happened in Lacedaimon -- V. Hermes is sent to Calypso's Island; Odysseus makes a raft and is carried to the coast of Scheria -- VI. How Odysseus appealed to Nausicaa, and she brought him to her father's house -- VII. What happened to Odysseus in the Palace of Alcinoos -- VIII. How they held games and sports in Phaiacia -- IX. How Odysseus visited the Lotus-eaters and the cyclops -- X. The island of the winds; the Land of the midnight sun; Circe -- XI. How Odysseus visited the kingdom of the dead -- XII The singing sirens; and the terrors of Scylla and Charybdis -- XIII. How Odysseus came to Ithaca -- XIV. Odysseus and the swineherd -- XV. How Telemachos sailed back to Ithaca -- XVI. How Telemachos met his father -- XVII. How Odysseus returned to his own home -- XVIII. How Odysseus fought the sturdy beggar -- XIX. How the old nurse knew her master -- XX. How God sent omens of the wrath to come -- XXI. The contest with the great bow -- XXII. The battle in the hall -- XXIII. How Odysseus found his wife again -- XXIV. How Odysseus found his old father, and how the story ended.
Presents Homer's age-old tale of the wanderings of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca after the Trojan War as he overcomes both divine and natural forces.
Adult
Text in English
9780451530684 [newsprint] 0451530683 [newsprint]
2009510801
Epic poetry, Greek.
Epic poetry.