Odyssey
by Homer
Reading #12 ("Nostoi I", 2024)
Abstract
Odysseus tries to return to his home in Ithaca, but is resisted by a god. Meanwhile his home is under threat as suitors drain his resources, court his wife, and plot the death of his son Telemachus.
Bibliographic Data
| Kind | Term |
|---|---|
| authors | Homer |
| literary form | poetry |
| genres | epic |
| subjects | nostos, home, love, family, civilization, xenia, intelligence, rhetoric, courage, moderation, heroics, ethics, philosophy, adventure |
| period | heroic age, late Bronze Age, Mycenaean Greece, Archaic Greece, 8th c. BCE |
| language | Ancient Greek, Homeric Greek |
| same as | wikidata | wikipedia |
| keywords & tags | none |
| Index | 138 entries |
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Referenced By
- Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian
- Apology by Plato
- Characters by Theophrastus
- Cratylus by Plato
- Crito by Plato
- De Interpretatione by Aristotle
- De rerum natura by Lucretius
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Laws by Plato
- Life of Alexander by Plutarch
- Phaedo by Plato
- Poetics by Aristotle
- Republic by Plato
- Sophist by Plato
- The Frogs by Aristophanes
- Theaetetus by Plato
- Topics by Aristotle
Index
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- Achaeans
- Acheron
- Achilles
- Aeaea
- Aegisthus
- Aeolus
- Agamemnon
- Agelaus
- Ajax
- Alcinous
- Amphimedon
- Amphinomus
- Amphitrite
- Anticleia
- Antilochus
- Antinous
- Aphrodite
- Apollo
- Ares
- Arete
- Argos
- Ariadne
- Artemis
- Athena
- Autolycus
- Calypso
- Cassandra
- Charybdis
- Cicones
- Cimmerians
- Circe
- Clytemnestra
- Cocytus
- Crete
- Ctesippus
- Cyclopes
- Cyprus
- Cythera
- Delos
- Demeter
- Demodocus
- Dodona
- Dolius
- Dulichium
- Egypt
- Elpenor
- Epeius
- Epicaste
- Erebus
- Ethiopians
- Euboea
- Eumaeus
- Eupeithes
- Euryalus
- Eurycleia
- Eurylochus
- Eurymachus
- Eurynome
- Hades
- Halitherses
- Helen
- Helios
- Hephaestus
- Hera
- Herakles
- Hermes
- Idomeneus
- Idothea
- Ino
- Iphitus
- Irus
- Ismarus
- Ithaca
- Kastor
- Laertes
- Laestrygonians
- Laodamas
- Leodes
- Libya
- Lotus-eaters
- Malea
- Medon
- Melanthius
- Melantho
- Memnon
- Menelaus
- Mentes
- Mentor
- Minos
- Mycenae
- Nausicaa
- Neoptolemus
- Nestor
- Oceanus
- Odysseus
- Ogygia
- Olympus
- Orestes
- Orion
- Ortygia
- Parnassus
- Patroclus
- Peiraeus
- Peisistratus
- Penelope
- Persephone
- Phaeacians
- Phemius
- Philoetius
- Phoenicia
- Polydeukes
- Polyphemos
- Poseidon
- Proteus
- Pylos
- Pyriphlegethon
- Same
- Scheria
- Scylla
- Sicily
- Sidon
- Sirens
- Sisyphus
- Sparta
- Styx
- Tantalus
- Taphians
- Telemachus
- Temese
- Tenedos
- Theoclymenus
- Thesprotia
- Thrinacia
- Tiresias
- Tityos
- Troy
- Zacynthus
- Zeus
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