The World of Odysseus |
Contents
Preface by the Author | 7 |
Homer and the Greeks | 13 |
Bards and Heroes | 26 |
Copyright | |
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1817 LIBRARIES Achaeans Achilles Agamemnon Alcinous ancient Antilochus Aphrodite Apollo aristocratic assembly Athena Athenian bard battle behaviour Book booty called century B.C. CHIGAN Cronus daughter demos Diomedes divine essential Eumaeus Eurycleia fact father feast formulas gave gifts give goddess gods Greece Greek Greek world guest-friends guest-friendship heart Hector Hellenes Hephaestus Hera Herodotus heroes heroic poetry Hesiod Homer Homeric poems honour household human Icarius Iliad Iliad and Odyssey Ithaca King Alcinous kinship labour Laertes language later lines lived Lycia matter Menelaus MICHIGAN moral Mycenae Mycenaean tablets myth narrative Nestor never nobles numbers Odyssey oikos Olympus once palace Penelope Penelope's Phaeacians Plato poet Poseidon precisely Priam primitive proper prowess raid relationship remained rule sense ships slave social society Sparta status stranger suitors swineherd tale Telemachus Telemachus's Thersites thing tion translated treasure tripods Trojan Trojan War Troy UNIV UNIVERSITY wealth women word world of Odysseus Zeus