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 ).

The Odyssey of Homer referred to a gift given to Helen by the Egyptian queen, a drug bringing oblivion.

** 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 ).

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.

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

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.

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.

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:

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

This Aeolus lived on the floating island of Aeolia and was visited by Odysseus and his crew in the Odyssey.

This Aeolus was perceived by post-Homeric authors as a god, rather than as a mortal and simple Keeper of the Winds ( as in the Odyssey ).

In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would be part of the writing and production teams for a sequel to COSMOS, to be called Cosmos: A space-time Odyssey, which is expected to be telecast in 2013.

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 novels such as The City and the Stars and the story " The Sentinel " ( upon which 2001: A Space Odyssey was based ) Clarke presents ultra-advanced technologies developed by hyperintelligences limited only by fundamental science.

Although some scenes from the Odyssey remained favorites of the vase-painters, notably the visually dramatic episode of Polyphemus, the Circe episode was rarely depicted.

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.

One famous example of montage was seen in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the start of man's first development from apes to humans.

Some of this reputation was founded on the core of talent brought together for the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) who subsequently worked together on series and feature films for Gerry Anderson.

Thyme, one of the most traditional Greek herbs, was mentioned in the 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.