Closely questioned, he adds that he had recently been in Thesprotia and had learned something there of Odysseus ’ s recent wanderings.

Odysseus ’ name means “ trouble ” in Greek, referring to both the giving and receiving of trouble — as is often the case in his wanderings.

Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey ( excluding Odysseus ' embedded narrative of his wanderings ) take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands.

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.

Amongst them may be mentioned a history of the dispute with Palamas ; biographies of his uncle and early instructor John, metropolitan of Heraclea, and of the martyr Codratus of Antioch ; funeral orations for Theodore Metochites, and the two emperors Andronicus ; commentaries on the wanderings of Odysseus and on Synesius's treatise on dreams ; tracts ‘ on orthography and on words of doubtful meaning ; a philosophical dialogue called Phlorentius or Concerning Wisdom ; astronomical treatises on the date of Easter, on the preparation of the astrolabe and on the predictive calculation of solar eclipses ; and an extensive correspondence.

Die Frist ist um, und wiederum verstrichen sind sieben Jahr, the Maestro quoted The Flying Dutchman, as he told of his career and wanderings, explaining that the number seven had significantly recurred in his life several times.

Lednicki told Szpilman of a German officer he had met at a Soviet Prisoner of War camp on his way back from his wanderings after the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising.

On his return to Europe, during his lectures, he told stories of meeting boa serpents, weeks of almost dying of starvation, voyages in canoes in rapids leading to the Amazon River, and many other terrible wanderings.

Zaanaim means " wanderings ", " the unloading of tents ", the location was probably so called from the fact of nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and villages of that region.

They may or may not return to the previous year's breeding location, depending on whether they found better habitat during these wanderings.

The two powerful groups making up the community — the priestly families who controlled the Temple and who traced their foundation-myth to Moses and the wilderness wanderings, and the major landowning families who made up the " elders " and who traced their own origins to Abraham, who had " given " them the land — were in conflict over many issues, and each had its own " history of origins ", but the Persian promise of greatly increased local autonomy for all provided a powerful incentive to cooperate in producing a single text.

His epic Annales, a narrative poem telling the story of Rome from the wanderings of Aeneas to the Ennius ' own time, remains the national epic until it is later eclipsed by Virgil's Aeneid ( b. 239 BC )

His epic Annales, a narrative poem telling the story of Rome from the wanderings of Aeneas to the Ennius ' own time, remains the national epic until it is later eclipsed by Virgil's Aeneid

While at Frankfurt in 1807 he received an invitation from Ludwig I, grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, offering him the appointment of Kapellmeister, with the order of merit, the title of privy councillor, a salary of 3000 florins, a house, a table supplied from the duke's own kitchen, and other privileges, which determined him to bring his wanderings at last to a close.

:" Much the greatest part of the story was Mr. Coleridge's invention ; but certain parts I myself suggested: — for example, some crime was to be committed which should bring upon the old Navigator, as Coleridge afterwards delighted to call him, the spectral persecution, as a consequence of that crime, and his own wanderings.

While such poets were identified closely with their own tribes, others, such as al-A ' sha, were known for their wanderings in search of work from whoever needed poetry.

Though he often put his own modern spin on the old modes of expression, he was an avowed neoclassicist who rejected atonality and formless wanderings, and he drew from great literature of the past for his vocal settings.

In her wanderings, Leto found the newly created floating island of Delos, which was neither mainland nor a real island.

After a series of wanderings from island to island, Legaspi found himself in Bohol faced by the danger of starvation prompting him to send expeditions to other islands for provision.

Typical subjects include mining, raising and droving cattle, sheep shearing, wanderings, war stories, the 1891 Australian shearers ' strike, class conflicts between the landless working class and the squatters ( landowners ), and outlaws such as Ned Kelly, as well as love interests and more modern fare such as trucking.

He indulged her wanderings, but constantly and unsuccessfully tried to tempt her into a more domestic life with him.

Although first documented in 1104, the book is presumed to have been buried with Cuthbert at Lindisfarne either in 687 or more likely in 698, and to have stayed with the body during the wanderings forced by the Viking invasions two centuries later.

He then visited Stockholm, and after a long residence there, interrupted by endless wanderings, once more established himself in Germany, where his compositions, both sacred and dramatic, received at last full credit.

This gives the novel more focus than some of Hiaasen ’ s other books, which often involve the characters running across each other in random ways, or going on unplanned wanderings across Florida.

Inside, though, he has the heart of a bard ; he is restless and prone to wanderlust, and in fact he is mostly met more or less accidentally on one on his wanderings.

One series concerns the rogue and adventurer, Northwest Smith, and his wanderings through the Solar System ; the other is a short fantasy series about Jirel of Joiry ( one of the first female protagonists in sword-and-sorcery fiction ).

Both terms were used to designate individuals dedicated to "... magic, medicine, divination ,... methods of longevity and to ecstatic wanderings " as well as exorcism ; in the case of the wu, " shamans " or " sorcerers " is often used as a translation.

Among the Berliners they encounter in their wanderings is an old man named Homer, who, unlike the Greek poet of war Homer, dreams of an " epic of peace.

In his aimless wanderings about the city he is given a book which describes the two natures of man: one " high ", spiritual and " human "; while the other is " low " and animal-like.

Critic Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the screenplay, the message of the film, and John Ford's direction, and wrote, " John Ford has truly fashioned a modern Odyssey — a stark and tough-fibered motion picture which tells with lean economy the never-ending story of man's wanderings over the waters of the world in search of peace for his soul ... it is harsh and relentless and only briefly compassionate in its revelation of man's pathetic shortcomings.

The extravagant hilarity displayed at the festivals of Demeter in Attica was traced to her, for it is said that when Demeter, in her wanderings in search of her daughter, arrived in Attica, Iambe cheered the mournful goddess with her jokes ( Horn.

One, the brother to Apis both sons of Phoroneus, is said to have founded the city of Argos in Peloponnesus, to have taught the people agriculture, and to have received Demeter, on her wanderings, at Argos, where his tomb was shown in later times.

In her wanderings, Io crossed the Bosphorus, giving the strait its name ( βοός πόρος-boos poros, which is Greek for cow-ford ).

At one point in the film, during the silversmith ’ s wanderings to find silver, the film is interrupted to show us what appears to be an abandoned log cabin.

It does not include any curse, it is without regional / sexual / between band provocations, without any detailed descriptions of heroic deeds on the edge of the law or without any aimless wanderings about forbidden substances.

It is a compilation of the thoughts of Molly Bloom, the concert-singing wife of advertising agent Leopold Bloom, whose wanderings around Dublin are followed in much of the book.

The details of the Codex disappearance and wanderings for a thousand years remain a mystery ; it is unknown whether the other half of the book may have survived.

Although polemic, which would definitely clarify the discipline ’ s past erratic wanderings and amnesias and an almost total theoretic oblivion in the field of history in Slovenia, is not a usual tool of scientific communication in these regions, it is nevertheless clear that Taja Kramberger has opened ( among some other researchers, such as Drago Braco Rotar, Rastko Močnik, Maja Breznik, Lev Centrih, Primož Krašovec, in a small, theoretically much less pertinent part also Marta Verginella and Oto Luthar ) an important segment of future debates, which are needed to elucidate some of the neglected and spontaneously transmitted chapters of the Slovenian ( distinctly ethnocentric and Sonderweg ) history.

Cambuslang is at the northernmost reach of the Welsh speaking Brythons, so he may well have visited here in his wanderings, or in an effort to secure help against the Saxons.

A graphic novel-length story named Tank Girl: The Odyssey was also published in ' 95, written by Peter Milligan and loosely inspired by Homer's Odyssey, Joyce's Ulysses and a considerable quantity of junk TV, ( although Milligan asserts in the preface that the story is entirely based on real events, inspired by the wanderings and adventures of a group of lost friends, all of whom appear in the pages under various pseudonyms ).

The length of each correspondence ranged from a single card to hundreds sent consecutively over a period of months ; the gesture's repetitive nature is counterbalanced by the artist's peripatetic global wanderings and exceedingly irregular hours ( in 1973 alone he sent postcards from twenty-eight cities ).

A magnificent view of the Castle of Bentheim ( which is located in Bad Bentheim in Lower-Saxony ), dated 1654, suggests that his wanderings extended to Germany.