Alcinous' court bard sings of the discovered adultery of Ares and Aphrodite ( Odyssey 8 266-366 ), and takes up a tale of Odysseus while the Ithacan wanderer listens on ( Odyssey 8 499-520 ).

the poet of The Odyssey, reputed blind, reveals himself not at all in singing of the blind minstrel Demodocus.

That such a tradition lies behind The Iliad and The Odyssey, at least, is hard to deny.

the verse of Beowulf or of The Iliad and The Odyssey was not easy to create but was not impossible for poets who had developed their talents perforce in earning a livelihood.

One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.

Combellack argues further, and here he makes his main point, that once The Iliad and The Odyssey are thought formulaic poems composed for an audience accustomed to formulaic poetry, Homeric critics are deprived of an entire domain they previously found arable.

If Cynewulf was literate, the Beowulf poet may have been also, and so may the final redactor of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Thus one line in five from The Iliad and The Odyssey is to be found somewhere else in the two poems.

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey.

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, which contains hundreds of private letters written by Thompson over the years, contains a letter in which he uses A Modest Proposals satire technique against the Vietnam War.

Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.

Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities ; in the narrative embedded in the Odyssey Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war, as she was attracted to his violent nature.

" Odysseus ' Lies (' Odyssey ', Books 13-19 )" in Phoenix, Vol.

Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.

Both nectar and ambrosia are fragrant, and may be used as perfume: in the Odyssey Menelaus and his men are disguised as seals in untanned seal skins, " and the deadly smell of the seal skins vexed us sore ; but the goddess saved us ; she brought ambrosia and put it under our nostrils.

* In the Odyssey, Calypso is described as having " spread a table with ambrosia and set it by Hermes, and mixed the rosy-red nectar.

* In the Odyssey ( ix. 345 – 359 ), Polyphemus likens the wine given to him by Odysseus to ambrosia and nectar.

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered ( according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11. 409 – 11 ) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

He is a significant figure in Homer's Iliad and is also mentioned in the Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.

* Homer, Odyssey 11. 543 – 67.

In Homer's Iliad, the horses of the Myrmidons graze on wild celery that grows in the marshes of Troy, and in Odyssey, there is mention of the meadows of violet and wild celery surrounding the cave of Calypso.

Thus, in addition to the Iliad and the Odyssey, there are " exceptional " epics which organize their respective themes on a " massive scale ".

In the Iliad and Odyssey there are several epithets to describe Odysseus.

The original Odyssey had a number of removable circuit cards that switched between the built-in games, of which there were ten in Europe.

While there had been previous game consoles that used cartridges, either the cartridges had no information and served the same function as flipping switches ( the Odyssey ) or the console itself was empty and the cartridge contained all of the game components.

Some claim that Virgil meant to change them before he died, while others find that the location of the two passages, at the very end of the so-called Volume I ( Books 1 – 6, the Odyssey ), and Volume II ( Books 7 – 12, the Iliad ), and their short length, which contrasts with the lengthy nature of the poem, are evidence that Virgil placed them purposefully there.

On the ground floor of this building, among the highly prized collections, there is a book reported to be the heaviest in the world, weighing, known as " Bhutan: a Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom ".

At the time of the U. S crash, there were numerous consoles on the market, including the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Bally Astrocade, the ColecoVision, the Coleco Gemini ( a 2600 clone ), the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the Fairchild Channel F System II, the Magnavox Odyssey < sup > 2 </ sup >, the Mattel Intellivision ( and its just-released update with several peripherals, the Intellivision II ), the Sears Tele-Games systems ( which included both 2600 and Intellivision clones ), the Tandyvision ( an Intellivision clone for Radio Shack ), and the Vectrex.

The ruler of Elysium varies from author to author: Pindar and Hesiod name Cronus as the ruler, while the poet Homer in the Odyssey describes fair-haired Rhadamanthus dwelling there.

Because the Greek word lôtos can refer to several different plants, there is some ambiguity as to which " lotus " appears in the Odyssey.

, the Honda Odyssey, Honda Pilot, and Honda Ridgeline are built there, as well as the Honda J V6 engine.

In the Odyssey, the dead oracle Teiresias tells Odysseus to walk away from Ithaca with an oar until a wayfarer tells him it is a winnowing fan, and there to build a shrine to Poseidon.

He estimates there has been a 70 dB factor loss of productivity or " 99. 99999 percent, of its ability to deliver the goods ", since the 1980s-" When Arthur C. Clarke compared the reality of computing in 2001 to the computer HAL in his book 2001: A Space Odyssey, he pointed out how wonderfully small and powerful computers were but how disappointing computer programming had become ".

Jazz is a recurring theme, with references abounding in their songs, and there are numerous other film, television and literary references and allusions, such as " Home at Last " ( from Aja ), which was inspired by Homer's Odyssey.

However when they got there they found a gigantic woman, the wife of Antiphates who promptly called her husband, who immediately left the assembly of the people and upon arrival snatched up one of the men and killed him on the spot, presumably then drinking his blood ( as it states in the Odyssey that he only met with the men with the intention of drinking their blood ).

The albums The Divine Wings of Tragedy and V: The New Mythology Suite were partly recorded in The Dungeon, while The Odyssey, Paradise Lost and Iconoclast were fully recorded there and produced by Romeo himself.

In the novel 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke tells us that Frank Poole's boyhood hometown was Flagstaff, Arizona, and that his visits to the Lowell Observatory there had sparked his interest in astronautics.

The Odyssey mentions the Greeks leaving Troy after winning the war first traveled to nearby Tenedos, sacrificed there, and then went to Lesbos before pausing to choose between alternative routes.

In level 2, The Subway, there is a room called the " Secret Room of Public Knowledge " which dedicates Robot Odyssey to Warren Robinett, who wrote the animation utility underlying the game.

Although there is some disagreement among the band's biographers, Clark is generally viewed as having contributed background vocals to the songs " Goin ' Back " and " Space Odyssey " from the then forthcoming Byrds ' album, The Notorious Byrd Brothers, as well as being an uncredited co-author, with Roger McGuinn, of " Get to You " from that album.

Specifications differ between problems, but there are some general rules that are crucial for everyone involved in Odyssey of the Mind to know.

At the end of the period there appear representations of mythology, probably at the moment when Homer codifies the traditions of Trojan cycle in the Iliad and the Odyssey.

George Chapman ( c. 1559-1634 ), a poet and playwright remembered for his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, was born in Hitchin and lived there.

After opening with a glimpse of Mount Ida, an important locus for the history of the Trojan War, Canto LXXVIII moves through much that is familiar from the earlier cantos in the sequence: del Cossa, the economic basis of war, Pound's writer and artist friends in London, " virtuous " rulers ( Lorenzo de Medici, the emperors Justinian, Titus and Antoninus, Mussolini ), usury and stamp scripts culminating in the Nausicaa episode from the Odyssey and a reference to the Confucian classic Annals of Spring and Autumn in which " there are no righteous wars ".