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Author
Publisher
Baby Professor
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Of all the myths known to man, Greek stories are the most widespread and influential. In this book, you’re going to read about some of the most fantastic stories like the adventures of Odysseus, stories of the Titans, Homer’s Odyssey and the labors of Hercules. You’re in a for a crazy imaginary adventure with the most powerful. So buckle up and enjoy the ride!
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this passionate, deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters-- to him, to you, to the world--in a text full of twists, turns and surprises. In a spectacular journey through mythical and modern landscapes, Adam Nicholson explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes. From Sicily, awash with wildflowers shadowed by Italy's largest oil refinery, to Ithaca, southern Spain, and the mountains on the edges of Andalusia...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
The complete first season of the animated television sit-com of the satiric adventures of a working class family, the Simpsons. The father, Homer, works with pride in a nuclear power plant run with more regard for profit than safety. His wife Marge is a kind of supermom, while their eldest son Bart is an underachiever and proud of it.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of Operation Mincemeat presents a definitive portrait of the notorious 20th-century spy that discusses his rise in MI6, high-profile intelligence friendships and 20-year espionage operation that culminated in his 1963 defection to Moscow.
"Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War - while...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This course explores six themes that every one of us has experienced or will experience: the unconquerable human spirit; youth, old age, and all that is between; romance and love; adventure and courage; laughter and irony; and patriotism.
9) The Odyssey
Author
Language
English
Description
"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A retelling of part of the Odyssey in which Odysseus and his fleet continue their journey and encounter giant cannibals, a beautiful witch, and the Land of the Dead.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An eye-searing, mind-bending, gender-shattering epic science fiction retelling of Homer's Odyssey starting with the end of a great war in the stars and the beginning of a very long journey home for Odyssia and her crew of warriors.
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 3
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
15) The Odyssey
Series
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
The ancient world's most spectacular epic unfolds on-screen as a star-studded, special-effects-filled adventure of breathtaking beauty and power in this lavishly produced adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey."
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells a part of the Odyssey in which Odysseus and his men, returning from the Land of the Dead determined to sail home to Ithaca, encounter Scylla, the six-headed monster, and Charybdis, the deadly whirlpool.
18) The Penelopiad
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope's parentage, her early life and marriage, and the scandalous rumors circulating about her. I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids....
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Odysseus is far from home, tossed by stormy seas and cursed by an angry one-eyed giant. After twenty years of fighting monsters, angering gods and goddesses, and surviving against the odds, Odysseus returns home and faces more dangerous enemies.
20) Ulysses
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930sIn terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June 1904, or Bloomsday, which was the anniversary of Joyces first walk with his beloved Nora Barnacle. It (very) loosely follows the episodes of Ulysses from the Odyssey...
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