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.

HAL is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two film adaptations of the Space Odyssey saga, and speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole, who speak tersely and with little emotional inflection.

In 2010: Odyssey Two, Clarke speaks through the character of Dr. Chandra ( he originally spoke through Dr. Floyd until Chandra was awoken ), who characterized this idea as: " tter nonsense!

Gary Fisher speaks about his role as a pioneer in the sport of Mountain Biking in two video documentaries: Full Cycle: A World Odyssey produced by New & Unique Videos ( 1994 ) and " Klunkerz " produced by Billy Savage ( 2007 ).

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.

Aeneas and his crew land on the island, when they are approached by a desperate Greek man from Ithaca, Achaemenides, who was stranded on the island a few years previously with Odysseus ' expedition ( as depicted in The Odyssey ).

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.

In The Odyssey, she is responsible for killing the whole cast, thereby sending them all to the land of the dead, from which TG was forced to save them by finding the Prince of Farts.

The Odyssey arena and pavilion is built on land owned by The Odyssey Trust under a 150 year lease with Belfast Harbour Commissioners.

In another passage of the Odyssey, dreams ( not personified ) are spoken of, by a double play on words, as coming through a gate of horn if true ( a play on the Greek words for " horn " and " fulfil ") or a gate of ivory if false ( a play on the Greek words for " ivory " and " deceive ").

In the Odyssey ( XIX. 560 ) two kinds of dreams are distinguished, as they exit from the realm of Morpheus: true dreams exit through the Gate of Horn, and false dreams through the Gate of Ivory.

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.

Odyssey has served as the primary means of communications for NASA ’ s Mars surface explorers in the past decade and will continue that role for the Curiosity rover.

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!

Amphitrite is not fully personified in the Homeric epics: " out on the open sea, in Amphitrite's breakers " ( Odyssey iii. 101 ), " moaning Amphitrite " nourishes fishes " in numbers past all counting " ( Odyssey xii. 119

The oceanic influences throughout pre-recorded history ( Homeric Legends, e. g. Troy ), and classical works like the Odyssey underscore the past influences.

Elephant Odyssey also features a glimpse of the past with the Fossil Portal and life-size statues of ancient creatures of Southern California next to the exhibits of their modern-day counterparts.

After unsuccessful attempts to contact the lander by the Mars Odyssey orbiter up to and past the Martian summer solstice on May 12, 2010, JPL declared the lander to be dead.

In these examples, the epithet can be contradictory to the past state of the subject: in Odyssey VI. 74, for instance, Nausicaa takes her ' radiant linen ', ἐσθῆτα φαεινήν, to be washed ; since it is dirty, it cannot be radiant.

Ulysses uses the plot line from The Odyssey and retells it with a new character in a new setting, thus using past writings to create a new, original one.

Tony walks all the way from Manhattan to his old neighbourhood in Brooklyn in the middle of the night, he also walks past his former Saturday night hangout, The 2001 Odyssey Discothèque, which is now a gay nightclub.

He wrote the book The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey ( 2002 ), which explains how genetic data has been used to trace human migrations over the past 50, 000 years, when modern humans first migrated outside of Africa.

As freshmen and sophomores, College Prep students learn basic composition and analytical writing through close reading of works from the literary canon, such as Homer's Odyssey, J. D.

Homer's Odyssey contains a haunting description of a cave of the Nereids on Ithaca, close by a harbor sacred to Phorcys.

Towards the close of the canto, the reader is returned to the world of Odysseus ; a line from Book Five of the Odyssey tells of the winds breaking up the hero's boat and is followed shortly by Leucothea, " Kadamon thugater " or Cadmon's daughter ) offering him her veil to carry him to shore (" my bikini is worth yr raft ").

While this was the first published version of the Iliad and Odyssey in Latin, the originality of the translation of Divus has been questioned: there are very close parallels with a much earlier translation by Leontius Pilatus.

The poem, with close to half a million lines, is twenty times longer than Homer's Odyssey, and one of the longest epics in the world.

In any case, the early importance of Poseidon can still be glimpsed in Homer's Odyssey, where Poseidon rather than Zeus is the major mover of events.

* Polyphemus was featured in the 1955 film Ulysses where he was played by Oscar Andriani, as well as the 1997 TV miniseries The Odyssey where he was played by Reid Asato.

In May 1972, Bushnell had visited the Magnavox Profit Caravan in Burlingame, California where he played the Magnavox Odyssey demonstration, specifically the table tennis game.

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.

The Telegony picks up where the Odyssey leaves off, beginning with the burial of the dead suitors, and continues until the death of Odysseus.

" 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 ).

Clarke was so impressed by the demonstration that he used it in the climactic scene of his screenplay for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the HAL 9000 computer sings the same song as it is being put to sleep by astronaut Dave Bowman.

In Homer's Odyssey Milazzo is the place where Ulysses is shipwrecked and meets Polyphemus.

Helen returned to Sparta and lived for a time with Menelaus, where she was encountered by Telemachus in The Odyssey.

Arthur C. Clarke of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame was coincidentally visiting friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility at the time of this remarkable speech synthesis demonstration and was so impressed that he used it in the climactic scene of his novel and screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the HAL 9000 computer sings the same song.

The necklace that Pausanias was shown was of green stones with gold, which made him skeptical of its being the one mentioned by Homer ( Odyssey xi. 327 ), for he noted other occasions in the Odyssey where necklaces made of gold and stones mention the stones.

Such an incident doesn ’ t happen even in the other Homeric Epic, The Odyssey where Athena disguises herself while speaking to Odysseus.

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

In the primitive highlands of Arcadia, where old practices lingered, the Erymanthian Boar was a giant fear-inspiring creature of the wilds that lived on Mount Erymanthos, a mountain that was apparently once sacred to the Mistress of the Animals, for in classical times it remained the haunt of Artemis ( Homer, Odyssey, VI. 105 ).

Circe, as widely known from the Odyssey, practiced transforming spells ; Medea ended up in Italy, where her son ruled over the Marsi.

Iris is frequently mentioned as a divine messenger in the Iliad which is attributed to Homer, but does not appear in his Odyssey, where Hermes fills that role.

* Clive Cussler refers to the Uffington Horse in his novel Trojan Odyssey, where it is the symbol of the cult presided over by Epona Eliade.

Stop motion developed to the point where Douglas Trumbull's effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey seemed lifelike to an unearthly degree.

His other TZ work was in the second season's " The Odyssey of Flight 33 ", where he played the co-pilot, and the fourth season's " The Parallel ".

Moreover the last line could be imitating an image from Homer's Odyssey ( 5. 482 ), where Odysseus covers himself with leaves though some scholars think the key word might be corrupted.

Joseph Warren Robinett, Jr. ( born December 25, 1951 ) is a designer of interactive computer graphics software, notable as the developer of the Atari 2600's Adventure — the first graphical adventure video game — and as a founder of The Learning Company, where he designed Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey.