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.

* Homer, Odyssey I, 28-31 ; XI, 385-464 ;

* Homer, Odyssey 11. 543 – 67.

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.

Homer is assumed to refer to this fortification when he mentions the " strong-built House of Erechtheus " ( Odyssey 7. 81 ).

** Odyssey, ascribed to Homer ( Greek mythology )

** 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.

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.

When the Emperor Hadrian asked the Oracle at Delphi about Homer, the Pythia proclaimed that he was Ithacan, the son of Epikaste and Telemachus, from the Odyssey.

The idea that Homer was responsible for just the two outstanding epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, did not win consensus until 350 BC.

One view which attempts to bridge the differences holds that the Iliad was composed by " Homer " in his maturity, while the Odyssey was a work of his old age.

" Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey ( but not the Iliad ), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.

Bibliography of reconstruction: Homer, Odyssey, 12. 072 ( 7th c. BC ); Theocritus, Idylls, 13 ( 350 – 310 BC ); Callimachus, Aetia ( Causes ), 24.

In the Odyssey, the behaviour of Penelope's suitors is called hubris by Homer, possibly still in a broader meaning than was later applied.

The Odyssey (, Odysseia ) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

The Odyssey has a lost sequel, the Telegony, which was not written by Homer.

Many scholars of Homer have concluded that his Iliad and Odyssey were composed from compilations of shorter narrative poems that related individual episodes.

In Odyssey Homer carries the old belief to the ideal island for mortals Scheria, the imaginary perfect world that was offered to the future emigrants.

* Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A. T. Murray, PH. D. in two volumes.

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.

The most important literary sources are the two epic poems traditionally credited to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey

This " reflection on the destructive aspect of progress " proceeded through chapter which treated rationality as both the liberation from and further domination of nature, interpretations of both Homer ’ s Odyssey and the Marquis de Sade, as well as analyses of the culture industry and anti-semitism.

" Hence it often means the life of a man, as in Homer, where one's life ( aion ) is said to leave him or to consume away ( Iliad v. 685 ; Odyssey v. 160 ).

Even earlier, a kind of primitive haggis is referred to in Homer's Odyssey, in book 20, ( towards the end of the eighth century BC ) when Odysseus is compared to " a man before a great blazing fire turning swiftly this way and that a stomach full of fat and blood, very eager to have it roasted quickly.

Minsky was an adviser on the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and is referred to in the movie and book.

On a survey for a video game that would become Gundam: True Odyssey, the Cosmic Era series ( including Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray ) were collectively referred to as " 21st Century First Gundam " ( a reference to the original Mobile Suit Gundam series ).

The event does not occur in Homer's Iliad, which ends before the fall of the city, but is referred to in the Odyssey.

Mostly based on the Odyssey and oral traditions, it is believed that the island became the capital of the Ionian Kingdom-State, which included the surrounding lands, and was referred to as one of the most powerful states of that time.

In the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey a group of primitive hominids, prior to their discovery of tools, live in fear of a large predatory cat ( portrayed by an actual jaguar ) which likely would have been a Dinofelis, although in Arthur C. Clarke's novel, the cat is referred to throughout as a " leopard ".

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 ").

She was born in Tokyo, Japan and is affectionately referred to as ' Halko ' by her fans, a nickname she gave herself which is inspired by HAL 9000, the onboard computer of the Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Dörpfeld may also have felt that the difficulty of crossing the narrow causeway was referred to in Homer ’ s enigmatic and repeated jest, “ For nowise, methinks, didst thou come hither on foot .” Homer, Odyssey 14. 190 ,, 16. 224.

According to tradition, this is the cave referred to by Homer in The Odyssey.

He stated that encounter between Beowulf and Unferth was parallel to the encounter between Odysseus and Euryalus in Books 7 – 8 of the Odyssey even to the point of them both giving the hero the same gift of a sword upon being proven wrong in their initial assessment of the hero's prowess.

In Homer's Odyssey, Aeolus, keeper of the winds, bestowed Odysseus and his crew with a gift of the four winds in a bag.

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

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 Homer's Odyssey XII, Odysseus is given advice by Circe to sail closer to Scylla, for Charybdis could drown his whole ship: " Hug Scylla's crag — sail on past her — top speed!

He instead describes a scene which is new to the audience, but which is given context by knowledge of the Iliad and Odyssey.

In most sources, including the Iliad and the Odyssey, Helen is the daughter of Zeus and Leda, the wife of the Spartan king Tyndareus ( no reference given for Helen as the daughter of Leda ).

The description of his palace and his dominions, the mode in which Odysseus is received, the entertainments given to him, and the stories he related to the king about his own wanderings, occupy a considerable portion of Homer's Odyssey ( from book vi.

Among the most conspicuous of Davis's projects with the orchestra was the LSO's most ambitious festival thus far, the " Berlioz Odyssey ", in which all Berlioz's major works were given.

In addition, the player is given options to place equipment or items that interfere with the planet's development, such as Oxygen Generators, which increase the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, and the monolith, a take on the one found in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which aids in increasing intelligence of a lifeform through extraterrestrial contact.

In the Odyssey, the least arguable references to bride-price are in the marriage settlements for Ctimene, the sister of Odysseus ; Pero, the daughter of Neleus, who demanded cattle for her ; and the goddess Aphrodite herself, whose husband Hephaestus threatens to make her father Zeus return the bride-price given for her, because she was adulterous.

By some accounts, which come after the Odyssey, Calypso bore Odysseus a son, Latinus, though Circe is usually given as Latinus's mother.

In the Odyssey, Nepenthes pharmakon ( i. e. an anti-sorrow drug ) is a magical potion given to Helen by the Egyptian queen Polidamma.

Homer is the name given to the purported author of the Ancient Greek poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.

The extraterrestrial species that built the monoliths is never described in much detail, but some knowledge of its existence is given to Dave Bowman after he is transported by the stargate to the " cosmic zoo ", as detailed in the novels 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: Odyssey Two.

Chorizontes (" separators ") was the name given to the ancient Alexandrian critics who believed the Iliad and Odyssey were by different poets.