Homer mentions an Achaean attack upon the delta, and Menelaus speaks of the same in Book 4 of the Odyssey to Telemachus when he recounts his own return home from the Trojan War.

This Telegony aside, the last 548 lines of the Odyssey, corresponding to Book 24, are believed by many scholars to have been added by a slightly later poet.

* Some of the tales of Sinbad the Sailor from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights were taken from the Odyssey.

In Homer's Odyssey ( Book 9 ), Odysseus lands on the Island of the Cyclopes during his journey home from the Trojan War.

Ovid's first century Roman audience would surely have had a basic knowledge of Polyphemus ' role as an uncivilized cannibal in Book IX of the Odyssey, and this episode gives an amusing contrast to that characterization.

Homer also quote ' Sandy Pylos ' in Book 17 of the Odyssey about Telemachus travelling to Sparta in search of news of his father Odysseus.

Book 4 of the Odyssey provides an account of Menelaus ' return from Troy and his homelife in Sparta.

* Homer, Iliad, Book III ; Odyssey, Books IV, and XXIII.

The Odyssey returns focus to Telemachus upon his father's return to Ithaca in Book XV.

A " mythical " people also named Cimmerians are described in Book 11, 14 of Homer's Odyssey as living beyond the Oceanus, in a land of fog and darkness, at the edge of the world and the entrance of Hades.

* Nissus of Dulichium, son of Aretias, father of Amphinomus, in Book 18 of Homer's Odyssey

In Book Six of the Odyssey, Odysseus is shipwrecked on the coast of the island of Scheria.

He marries the daughter of Alector in the beginning of Book IV of the Odyssey ( according to the scholia on line 10, her name was Iphiloche or Echemela ).

He also appears in Book XV of the Odyssey, where he is shown offering valuable gifts to Telemachus together with Menelaus and Helen.

The story of Pero is mentioned in Book XI of Homer's Odyssey.

::( The Odyssey, Book 16 lines 19-21 ).

The Odyssey, Book XX, in The Iliad & The Odyssey.

* In Book 19 of The Odyssey, Odysseus recounts a story of how he was gored in the thigh during a boar hunt on Mount Parnassus in his youth.

Of particular relevance are Book Five, Chapter 11, " Cathay and China: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Jesuit Lay Brother " and Chapter 12, " Cathay and China Proved to Be Identical.

In the Book of the Dead in the Odyssey, Odysseus digs an offering pit around which he pours in order honey, wine and water.

The title derives from Book XI of Homer's The Odyssey, wherein Agamemnon speaks to Odysseus: " As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.

Around this time, the television company, ATV Midlands started each day's broadcasting with a short film accompanied by another song performed by Rain with de Sykes singing vocals, " Odyssey " ( often incorrectly referred to as " Life is a Beautiful Book ").

The title of Pope ( derived from a word, known in Greek as far back as Homer ’ s Odyssey 6: 57, for " Father ") is the most common title for the Bishop of Rome, and, in the traditional Latin abbreviation PP ( sometimes lower-case ), is used in his official signature, e. g. " Benedictus PP XVI ".

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.

no individual word in The Iliad or The Odyssey can be credited to any one man ; ;

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.

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

The Achaeans (, Akhaioí ) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad ( used 598 times ) and Odyssey.

Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:

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.

The premier examples of its use are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.

The hexameter was first used by early Greek poets of the oral tradition, and the most complete extant examples of their works are the Iliad and the Odyssey, which influenced the authors of all later classical epics that survive today.

Some of the most famous examples of epic poetry include the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Iliad and the Odyssey.

** The Whole Works of Homer Prince of Poets by George Chapman ( 1616 ) a retelling of the Iliad and Odyssey in iambic rhyming couplets: the Iliad in iambic heptameter, and the Odyssey in iambic pentameter.

The Greek language holds an important place in the histories of Europe, the more loosely defined Western world, and Christianity ; the canon of ancient Greek literature includes works of monumental importance and influence for the future Western canon, such as the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey.

Heinrich's later interest in history was initially encouraged by his father, who had schooled him in the tales of the Iliad and the Odyssey and had given him a copy of Ludwig Jerrer's Illustrated History of the World for Christmas in 1829.

In the Western classical tradition, Homer (;, Hómēros ) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet.

The consensus is that " the Iliad and the Odyssey date from around the 8th century BC, the Iliad being composed before the Odyssey, perhaps by some decades ," i. e. earlier than Hesiod, the Iliad being the oldest work of Western literature.