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According to Homer ( Odyssey iv: 412 ), the sandy island of Pharos situated off the coast of the Nile Delta was the home of Proteus, the oracular Old Man of the Sea and herdsman of the sea-beasts.
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According to Homer, Circe suggested two alternative routes to Odysseus to return to Ithaca: toward the " Wandering Rocks " where King Aeolus reigned or passing between the dangerous Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, conventionally identified with the Strait of Messina.
* According to Homer Hickam's memoir, Rocket Boys, and its movie production, October Sky, the early rockets he and his friends built were ironically named " Auk ".
According to Greek source, the original name of the Lydian kingdom was Maionia ( Μαιονία ), or Maeonia: Homer ( Iliad ii.
According to Hesiod's Theogony, Triton dwelt with his parents in a golden palace in the depths of the sea ; Homer places his seat in the waters off Aegae.
According to Groening, " Homer originated with my goal to both amuse my real father, and just annoy him a little bit.
According to Homer, Hecuba was the daughter of King Dymas of Phrygia, but Euripides and Virgil write of her as the daughter of the Thracian king Cisseus.
According to Homer, Diomedes enters the war with a fleet of 80 ships, third only to the contributions of Agamemnon ( 100 ships ) and Nestor ( 90 ).
According to Homer, he was called Xanthos by gods and Scamander by men, which might indicate that the former name refers to the god and the latter one to the river itself.
According to Homer, Nausithous led a migration of Phaeacians from Hypereia to the island of Scheria in order to escape the lawless Cyclopes.
According to Homer, Alcinous is the happy ruler of the Phaiakians in the island of Scheria, who has by Arete five sons and one daughter, Nausicaa.
According to Homer, the Greek fleet on its way to Troy, in the generation after the Argo quest, was reprovisioned and victualled at Euneus ' orders.
According to Diogenes Laërtius, Xenophanes wrote in hexameters and also composed elegies and iambics against Homer and Hesiod.
According to Homer, Myrsinos took part in the Trojan War together with all of the Eleans ( Iliad II. 616 ).
According to Homer, Calypso kept Odysseus hostage at Ogygia for seven years, while Pseudo-Apollodorus says five years and Hyginus says one.
According to Homer, the Leleges were a distinct Anatolian tribe ; according to Herodotus the Leleges were an early name for the Carians ; and according to the fourth-century BCE historian Philippus of Theangela, who suggested the Leleges had connections to Messenia, in mainland Greece, they were overcome by the Carians.
According to this theory, then, Homer really does exist, though we must still use special language when talking about somebody who exists at a distant time — just as we would use special language when talking about something a long way away ( the very words near, far, above, below, over there, and such are directly comparable to phrases such as in the past, a minute ago, and so on ).
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According to the Odyssey, Menelaus's fleet was blown by storms to Crete and Egypt, where they were unable to sail away due to calm winds.
According to scholia on the Odyssey, Arcesius ' parents were Zeus and Euryodeia ; Ovid also writes of Arcesius as a son of Zeus.
According to some translations of Homer's The Odyssey, Laërtes is described as wearing gloves while walking in his garden so as to avoid the brambles.
According to Bernard Knox's notes found in the Robert Fagles translation of The Odyssey, " arete " is also associated with the Greek word for pray, " araomai ".
According to the legend told in the Odyssey of Homer, after the Trojan War a Greek official named Menestheus escaped with his troops through the Straits of Gibraltar and reached the Guadalete River.
According to the 1981 Clover Park yearbook, Odyssey, on February 23 of that year a fire destroyed the gym ( where the fire had been started ), the music center and the business department.
According to Peter Moore and Microsoft's E3 press event Lost Odyssey was to be in stores worldwide for the 2007 holiday season, although it was actually released in February 2008 in both the US and Europe.
" According to A Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey, by Nicholas Schaffner, Emily is the Honourable Emily Young ( born 13 March 1951 ), daughter of Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, and nicknamed " the psychedelic schoolgirl " at the UFO Club.
According to Jaynes, the older portions of the Old Testament ( such as the Book of Amos ) have few or none of the features of some later books of the Old Testament ( such as Ecclesiastes ) as well as later works such as Homer's Odyssey, which show indications of a profoundly different kind of mentality — an early form of consciousness.
According to Book III of Homer's The Odyssey, Menelaus and his fleet of ships, returning home from the Trojan War, were blown off course to the Gortyn coastline.
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According to The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought, the Right has gone through five distinct historical stages: ( i ) the reactionary right, which sought a return to aristocracy and established religion ; ( ii ) the moderate right, who sought limited government and distrusted intellectuals ; ( iii ) the radical right, who favored a romantic and aggressive nationalism ; ( iv ) the extreme right, who proposed anti-immigration policies and implicit racism ; and ( v ) the neo-liberal right, who sought to combine a belief in a market economy and economic deregulation with the traditional Right-wing beliefs in patriotism, élitism, and law and order.
According to one scholar, the Epic of Atrahasis tablet III iv, lines 6 – 9 identifies the flood as a local river flood: " Like dragonflies they bodies have filled the river.
According to the Synodicon, he summoned a council at Antioch to give synodical authority to this novel clause ( Labbe, iv.
According to Jacob Stein's treatise on asset protection, common provisions enacted among some, but not all, of these countries are: ( i ) there is no recognition of foreign judgments with respect to trusts ; ( ii ) there is a very short statute of limitations on fraudulent transfers ; ( iii ) to establish a fraudulent transfer the creditor must show that the debtor was insolvent, and must establish the debtor's intent to " hinder, delay or defraud " beyond a reasonable doubt ; ( iv ) the anti-duress provisions are incorporated into the statutes ; and ( v ) spendthrift protection is extended to self-settled trusts.
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