Table of Contents
227 relations: Achilles, Aeaea, Aegisthus, Aeolus (son of Hippotes), Agamemnon, Alcinous, Alexander Pope, Alfred A. Knopf, American Journal of Philology, Ancient Greek literature, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrew Lang, Anthony Quinn, Anticlea, Antinous of Ithaca, Aoidos, Arcadia (magazine), Arete (mythology), Arethusa (journal), Aristarchus of Samothrace, Aristotle, Armand Assante, Athena, Balkan Wars, Bard, BBC, BBC News, BBC Online, BBC Radio 4, Bloomsbury Publishing, British Museum, Byzantine Empire, Calvert Watkins, Calypso (mythology), Cambridge University Press, Cattle of Helios, Charles Lamb, Charybdis, Cicones, Circe, Circe (novel), Classical antiquity, Classical Greece, Classics, Claudio Monteverdi, Clytemnestra, Coen brothers, Colonialism, Comedy drama, Common Core, ... Expand index (177 more) »
- 8th-century BC books
- 8th-century BC poems
- Epic Cycle
- Nautical fiction
- Poems adapted into films
- Public domain books
- Sequels
Achilles
In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus (Achilleús) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors.
Aeaea
Aeaea, Ææa or Eëä (or; Aiaíā) was a mythological island said to be the home of the goddess-sorceress Circe.
Aegisthus
Aegisthus (Αἴγισθος; also transliterated as Aigisthos) was a figure in Greek mythology.
Aeolus (son of Hippotes)
In Greek mythology, Aeolus (Αἴολος, Aiolos), the son of Hippotes, was the ruler of the winds encountered by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
See Odyssey and Aeolus (son of Hippotes)
Agamemnon
In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (Ἀγαμέμνων Agamémnōn) was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War.
Alcinous
In Greek mythology, Alcinous (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκίνους or Ἀλκίνοος Alkínoös means "mighty mind") was a son of Nausithous and brother of Rhexenor.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is an American publishing house that was founded by Blanche Knopf and Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915.
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American Journal of Philology
The American Journal of Philology is a quarterly academic journal established in 1880 by the classical scholar Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Ancient Greek literature
Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire.
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Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Sergeyevich Konchalovsky (Андрей Сергеевич Кончаловский; born 20 August 1937) is a Russian filmmaker.
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Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology.
Anthony Quinn
Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), better known by his stage name Anthony Quinn, was an American actor.
Anticlea
In Greek mythology, Anticlea or Anticlia (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίκλεια, literally "without fame") was a queen of Ithaca as the wife of King Laërtes.
Antinous of Ithaca
In the Epic Cycle, Antinous (also Antinoüs) or Antinoös (translit means "opposite in character, resisting"), was the Ithacan son of Eupeithes, best known for his role in Homer's Odyssey.
See Odyssey and Antinous of Ithaca
Aoidos
The Greek word (ἀοιδός; plural: / ἀοιδοί) referred to a classical Greek singer.
Arcadia (magazine)
Arcadia is a Colombian-based monthly magazine.
See Odyssey and Arcadia (magazine)
Arete (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Queen Arete (Ἀρήτη means "she who is prayed for") of Scheria was the wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas.
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Arethusa (journal)
Arethusa is an academic journal established in 1967.
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Aristarchus of Samothrace
Aristarchus of Samothrace (Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σαμόθραξ Aristarchos o Samothrax; BC) was an ancient Greek grammarian, noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Armand Assante
Armand Anthony Assante Jr. (born October 4, 1949) is an American actor.
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Athena
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars were a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states in 1912 and 1913.
Bard
In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.
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British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Calvert Watkins
Calvert Watkins (/ˈwɒtkɪnz/; March 13, 1933 – March 20, 2013) was an American linguist and philologist, known for his book How to Kill a Dragon.
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Calypso (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Calypso (she who conceals) was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer's Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years against his will.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Cattle of Helios
In Greek mythology, the Cattle of Helios (Ēelíoio bóes), also called the Oxen of the Sun, are cattle pastured on the island of Thrinacia, or Thrinakia (in later souces identified with Sicily or Malta).
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Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).
Charybdis
Charybdis (lang|Khárybdis,; lang) is a sea monster in Greek mythology.
Cicones
The Cicones or Ciconians were a Homeric ThracianHerodotus, The Histories (Penguin Classics), edd.
Circe
Circe (Κίρκη: Kírkē) is an enchantress and a minor goddess in ancient Greek mythology and religion. Odyssey and Circe are Pigs in literature.
Circe (novel)
Circe is a 2018 novel by American writer Madeline Miller.
Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
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Classical Greece
Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece,The "Classical Age" is "the modern designation of the period from about 500 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C." (Thomas R. Martin, Ancient Greece, Yale University Press, 1996, p.
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Classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.
Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.
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Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra (Κλυταιμνήστρα, Klytaimnḗstrā), in Greek mythology, was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy.
Coen brothers
Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957),State of Minnesota.
Colonialism
Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.
Comedy drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.
Common Core
The Common Core State Standards Initiative, also known as simply Common Core, was a multi-state educational initiative begun in 2010 with the goal of increasing consistency across state standards, or what K–12 students throughout the United States should know in English language arts and mathematics at the conclusion of each school grade.
Crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.
Cyclopes
In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes (Κύκλωπες, Kýklōpes, "Circle-eyes" or "Round-eyes"; singular Cyclops; Κύκλωψ, Kýklōps) are giant one-eyed creatures.
Dactylic hexameter
Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry.
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
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Demetrios Chalkokondyles
Demetrios Chalkokondyles (Δημήτριος Χαλκοκονδύλης Dēmḗtrios Chalkokondýlēs), Latinized as Demetrius Chalcocondyles and found variously as Demetricocondyles, Chalcocondylas or Chalcondyles (14239 January 1511), was one of the most eminent Greek scholars in the West.
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Demodocus (Odyssey character)
In the Odyssey by Homer, Demodocus (Dēmódokos) is a poet who often visits the court of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians on the island of Scherie.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
Edith Hall
Edith Hall, (born 1959) is a British scholar of classics, specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history, and professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University.
Editio princeps
In textual and classical scholarship, the editio princeps (plural: editiones principes) of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts.
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Emily Wilson (classicist)
Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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English translations of Homer
Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English since the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Epic Cycle
The Epic Cycle (Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony. Odyssey and epic Cycle are Trojan War literature.
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia. Odyssey and epic of Gilgamesh are poems adapted into films.
See Odyssey and Epic of Gilgamesh
Epic poetry
An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.
Eumaeus
In Greek mythology, Eumaeus (Ancient Greek: Εὔμαιος Eumaios meaning 'searching well') was Odysseus' slave, swineherd, and friend.
Eupeithes
In Greek mythology, Eupeithes (Εὐπείθης Eupeíthēs) was the father of Antinous, the leader of the suitors of Penelope.
Eurycleia of Ithaca
In Greek mythology, Eurycleia (Ancient Greek: Εὐρύκλεια Eurýkleia), or Euryclea (also known as Antiphata (Ἀντιφάτη Antipháte) in other traditions), is the daughter of Ops and granddaughter of Peisenor, as well as the wet-nurse of Odysseus.
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Eustathius of Thessalonica
Eustathius of Thessalonica (or Eustathios of Thessalonike; Εὐστάθιος Θεσσαλονίκης) was a Byzantine Greek scholar and Archbishop of Thessalonica and is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Fairy tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.
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Flashback (narrative)
A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.
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Franco Piavoli
Franco Piavoli (born 21 June 1933) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer.
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Geographica
The Geographica (Γεωγραφικά, Geōgraphiká; Geographica or Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII, "Strabo's 17 Books on Geographical Topics") or Geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 'books', written in Greek in the late 1st century BC, or early 1st century AD, and attributed to Strabo, an educated citizen of the Roman Empire of Greek descent.
George Chapman
George Chapman (– 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet.
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Giants (Greek mythology)
In Greek and Roman mythology, the Giants, also called Gigantes (Greek: Γίγαντες, Gígantes, Γίγας, Gígas), were a race of great strength and aggression, though not necessarily of great size.
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Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh (𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦|translit.
Giuseppe de Liguoro
Giuseppe de Liguoro (1869–1944) was an Italian actor and film director of the silent era.
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Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.
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Greek hero cult
Hero cults were one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion. Odyssey and Greek hero cult are ancient Greek religion.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Greta Scacchi
Greta Scacchi, OMRI (born 18 February 1960) is an actress known for her roles in the films White Mischief (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990), The Player (1992), Emma (1996) and Looking for Alibrandi (2000).
Harper (publisher)
Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.
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Helen of Troy
Helen (Helénē), also known as Helen of Troy, Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, and in Latin as Helena, was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world.
Helios
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Helios (Ἥλιος ||Sun; Homeric Greek: Ἠέλιος) is the god who personifies the Sun.
Hermes
Hermes (Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods.
Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
Homer's Ithaca
Ithaca (Ιθάκη, Ithakē) was, in Greek mythology, the island home of the hero Odysseus.
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Homeric Greek
Homeric Greek is the form of the Greek language that was used in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Homeric Hymns.
Homeric Question
The Homeric Question concerns the doubts and consequent debate over the identity of Homer, the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and their historicity (especially concerning the Iliad).
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Humbaba
Humbaba (Ḫumbaba;, Ḫûmbaba, with an optional determinative), originally known as Ḫuwawa in Sumerian (Ḫuwawa), was a figure in Mesopotamian mythology.
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (SV 325, The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland) is an opera consisting of a prologue and five acts (later revised to three), set by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Giacomo Badoaro.
See Odyssey and Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Iliad
The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. Odyssey and Iliad are 8th-century BC books, 8th-century BC poems, ancient Greek religion, epic Cycle, poems adapted into films, public domain books and Trojan War literature.
In medias res
A narrative work beginning in medias res ("into the middle of things") opens in the chronological middle of the plot, rather than at the beginning (cf. ab ovo, ab initio).
Inferno (Dante)
Inferno (Italian for 'Hell') is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem The Divine Comedy.
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Ino (Greek mythology)
In Greek mythology, Ino was a Theban princess who later became a queen of Boeotia.
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Ionian Islands
The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: Ιόνια νησιά, Ionia nisia; Ancient Greek, Katharevousa: Ἰόνιαι Νῆσοι, Ionioi Nēsoi) are a group of islands in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece.
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Ischia
Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Ismarus (Thrace)
Ismarus or Ismaros (Ἴσμαρος) was a city of the Cicones, in ancient Thrace, mentioned by Homer in the Odyssey.
See Odyssey and Ismarus (Thrace)
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.
John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
John Rhosos
John Rhosos or Rhosus (active 1447–1497, d. Feb. 1498) was a Greek Cretan scribe and calligrapher who lived and worked in 15th century Renaissance Italy.
Johns Hopkins University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.
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Jonathan Shay
Jonathan Shay (born 1941) is an American doctor and clinical psychiatrist.
Judith Thurman
Judith Thurman (born 1946) is an American writer, biographer, and critic.
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Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker.
L'Odissea (1911 film)
L'Odissea is a 1911 Italian silent film, the third known adaptation from Homer's Odyssey.
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Laertes (father of Odysseus)
In Greek mythology, Laertes (Laértēs; also spelled Laërtes) was the king of the Cephallenians, an ethnic group who lived both on the Ionian Islands and on the mainland.
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Laestrygonians
In Greek mythology, the Laestrygonians or Laestrygones (Λαιστρυγόνες) were a tribe of man-eating giants.
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Library of Alexandria
The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world.
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Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria (ho Pháros tês Alexandreías, contemporary Koine; فنار الإسكندرية), was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (280–247 BC).
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List of editiones principes in Greek
In classical scholarship, the editio princeps (plural: editiones principes) of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts, which could be circulated only after being copied by hand.
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Literary modernism
Modernist literature originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterised by a self-conscious separation from traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing.
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Lotus-eaters
In Greek mythology, the lotus-eaters (lōtophágoi) were a race of people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree, a plant whose botanical identity is uncertain.
Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller (born July 24, 1978) is an American novelist, author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018).
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Malebolge
In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of the Divine Comedy, Malebolge or Fraud is the eighth circle of Hell.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.
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Martin Litchfield West
Martin Litchfield West, (23 September 1937 – 13 July 2015) was a British philologist and classical scholar.
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Mashu
Mashu, as described in the Epic of Gilgamesh of Mesopotamian mythology, is a great cedar mountain through which the hero-king Gilgamesh passes via a tunnel on his journey to Dilmun after leaving the Cedar Forest, a forest of ten thousand leagues span.
Menelaus
In Greek mythology, Menelaus (Μενέλαος, 'wrath of the people') was a Greek king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta.
Mentes (King of the Taphians)
In Greek mythology, Mentes (Ancient Greek: Μέντης Méntēs) is the name of the King of the Taphians and the son of Anchialus.
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Mentor (Odyssey)
In the Odyssey, Mentor (Greek: Μέντωρ, Méntōr; gen.: Μέντορος) was the son of Alcimus.
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Methuen Publishing
Methuen Publishing Ltd (also known as Methuen Books) is an English publishing house.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece)
The Ministry of Culture (Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού) is the government department of Greece entrusted with preserving the country's cultural heritage, promoting the arts, and overseeing sport through the subordinate General Secretariat for Sports.
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Moly (herb)
Moly (Greek: μῶλυ) is a magical herb mentioned in book 10 of Homer's Odyssey.
Moral injury
A moral injury is an injury to an individual's moral conscience and values resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression on the part of themselves or others.
Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus (Ólympos) is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa and Pieria, about southwest from Thessaloniki.
Mycenae
Mycenae (𐀘𐀏𐀙𐀂; Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykē̂nai or Mykḗnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.
Nausicaa
Nausicaa (Nausikáa, or label), also spelled Nausicaä or Nausikaa, is a character in Homer's Odyssey.
Núria Perpinyà
Núria Perpinyà Filella (born 1961) is a Catalan novelist, a playwright and an essayist.
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Nekyia
In ancient Greek cult-practice and literature, a nekyia or nekya (νέκυια, νεκυία; νεκύα) is a "rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future," i.e., necromancy.
Nestor (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Nestor of Gerenia (Νέστωρ Γερήνιος, Nestōr Gerēnios) was a legendary king of Pylos.
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Nestor's Cup (mythology)
In Greek mythology Nestor's Cup is a legendary golden mixing cup which was owned by the hero Nestor.
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Nestor's Cup (Pithekoussai)
Nestor's Cup is an eighth century BC wine cup discovered in 1954 in the San Montano cemetery associated with the ancient trading site of Pithekoussai in Magna Graecia, on Ischia, an island in the Gulf of Naples (Italy).
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis (Νίκος Καζαντζάκης; 2 March (OS 18 February) 188326 October 1957) was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher.
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Nostos
Nostos is a theme used in Ancient Greek literature, which includes an epic hero returning home, often by sea.
Nostos: The Return
Nostos: The Return (Nostos: Il ritorno) is a 1989 Italian adventure drama film directed by Franco Piavoli, starring and Branca De Camargo.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 satirical comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
See Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Odyssean gods
The Odyssean gods are the ancient Greek gods referenced in Homer's Odyssey.
Odysseus
In Greek and Roman mythology, Odysseus (Odyseús), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (Ulixes), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
Ogygia
Ogygia (Ōgygíē, or Ὠγυγία Ōgygíā) is an island mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, Book V, as the home of the nymph Calypso, the daughter of the Titan Atlas.
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821) in October 1816.
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Oper Frankfurt
The Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera) is a German opera company based in Frankfurt.
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Oral tradition
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.
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Oral Tradition (journal)
Oral Tradition is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1986 by John Miles Foley covering studies in oral tradition and related fields.
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Orestes
In Greek mythology, Orestes or Orestis (Ὀρέστης) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and the brother of Electra.
Othenio Abel
Othenio Lothar Franz Anton Louis Abel (20 June 1875 – 4 July 1946) was an Austrian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist.
Other (philosophy)
Other is a term used to define another person or people as separate from oneself.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
Panathenaic Games
The Panathenaic Games (Παναθήναια) were held every four years in Athens in Ancient Greece from 566 BC to the 3rd century AD.
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Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are held by men.
Peisistratus of Pylos
In Greek mythology, Peisistratus or Pisistratus (Peisistratos) was a prince of Pylos in Messenia.
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Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus (Pelopónnēsos) or Morea (Mōrèas; Mōriàs) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans.
Penelope
Penelope (Ancient Greek: Πηνελόπεια, Pēnelópeia, or Πηνελόπη, Pēnelópē) is a character in Homer's Odyssey. She was the queen of Ithaca and was the daughter of Spartan king Icarius and Asterodia.
Perseus Digital Library
The Perseus Digital Library, formerly known as the Perseus Project, is a free-access digital library founded by Gregory Crane in 1987 and hosted by the Department of Classical Studies of Tufts University.
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Peter Struck (classicist)
Peter T. Struck is professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania and incoming dean of the university's College of Arts & Sciences.
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Phemius
In Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, Phemius (Phḗmios), son of Terpes/Terpius, is an Ithacan poet who performs narrative songs in the house of the absent Odysseus.
Phoenician alphabet
The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC.
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Pisistratus
Pisistratus (also spelled Peisistratus or Peisistratos; Πεισίστρατος; – 527 BC) was a politician in ancient Athens, ruling as tyrant in the late 560s, the early 550s and from 546 BC until his death.
Polyphemus
Polyphemus (Polyphēmos,; Polyphēmus) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey.
Poseidon
Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) is one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
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Proteus
In Greek mythology, Proteus (Prōteús) is an early prophetic sea god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea" (hálios gérôn).
Pylos
Pylos (Πύλος), historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Rhapsode
A rhapsode (ῥαψῳδός, "rhapsōidos") or, in modern usage, rhapsodist, refers to a classical Greek professional performer of epic poetry in the fifth and fourth centuries BC (and perhaps earlier).
Robert W. Smith (musician)
Robert William Smith (October 24, 1958 – September 21, 2023) was an American composer, arranger, and teacher.
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Rolf Riehm
Rolf Riehm (born 15 June 1937) is a German composer who wrote stage and orchestral works as well as music for ensembles and solo instruments.
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press (RUP) is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.
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Samuel Butcher (classicist)
Samuel Henry Butcher DCL LLD (16 April 1850 – 29 December 1910) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar and politician.
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Samuel Butler (novelist)
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh).
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Scheria
Scheria or Scherie (Σχερία or Σχερίη), also known as Phaeacia or Faiakia, was a region in Greek mythology, first mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as the home of the Phaeacians and the last destination of Odysseus in his 10-year journey before returning home to Ithaca.
Scylla
In Greek mythology, Scylla (lang|Skýlla) is a legendary, man-eating monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart, the sea-swallowing monster Charybdis.
Siduri
Siduri, or more accurately Šiduri (pronounced Shiduri), is a character in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Silvana Mangano
Silvana Mangano (21 April 1930 – 16 December 1989) was an Italian film actress.
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Sinbad the Sailor
Sinbad the Sailor (Sindibādu l-Bahriyy or Sindbad) is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle.
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Siren (mythology)
In Greek mythology, sirens (label; plural) are humanlike beings with alluring voices; they appear in a scene in the Odyssey in which Odysseus saves his crew's lives.
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Sirenen
Sirenen – Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens (Sirens – Images of Desire and Destruction) is an opera in three parts and eight scenes by Rolf Riehm, based on the Greek myth of Odysseus, Circe and the Sirens as told in Homer's Odyssey.
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.
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Sparta
Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.
Story within a story
A story within a story, also referred to as an embedded narrative, is a literary device in which a character within a story becomes the narrator of a second story (within the first one).
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Strabo
StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.
Stream of consciousness
In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator.
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Suitors of Penelope
In Greek mythology, the suitors of Penelope (also known in Latin as the Proci) are one of the main subjects of Homer's Odyssey.
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Telegony
The Telegony (Greek: Τηλεγόνεια, Tēlegoneia; Telegonia) is a lost ancient Greek epic poem about Telegonus, son of Odysseus by Circe. Odyssey and Telegony are epic Cycle.
Telemachus
Telemachus (lit), in Greek mythology, is the son of Odysseus and Penelope, who is a central character in Homer's Odyssey.
Telemachy
The Telemachy (from Greek Τηλεμάχεια, Tēlemacheia) is a term traditionally applied to the first four books of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
Temple of Zeus, Olympia
The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus.
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Textbook
A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Odyssey (1968 miniseries)
The Odyssey (Odissea) is an eight-episode European TV miniseries broadcast on RAI (Italian state TV) in 1968 and based on Homer's Odyssey.
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The Odyssey (1997 miniseries)
The Odyssey is a 1997 American mythology–adventure television miniseries based on the ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, the Odyssey.
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The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is an epic poem by Greek poet and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis, based on Homer's Odyssey.
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The Penelopiad
The Penelopiad is a novella by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
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Thesprotia
Thesprotia (Θεσπρωτία) is one of the regional units of Greece.
Tiresias
In Greek mythology, Tiresias (Teiresías) was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years.
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.
Trojan Horse
In Greek mythology, the Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks during the Trojan War to enter the city of Troy and win the war.
Trojan War
The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC.
Troy
Troy (translit; Trōia; 𒆳𒌷𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭|translit.
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Type scene
A type scene is a literary convention employed by a narrator across a set of scenes, or related to scenes (place, action) already familiar to the audience.
Ulysse (ballet)
Ulysse is a contemporary dance work by French choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta, created in 1981 for eight dancers.
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Ulysses (1954 film)
Ulysses is a 1954 fantasy-adventure film based on Homer's epic poem Odyssey.
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Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce.
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Ulysses 31
is an anime series (1981) that updates the Greek mythology of Odysseus (known as "Ulixes" or "Ulysses" in Latin) to the 31st century.
Ulysses' Gaze
Ulysses' Gaze (translit. To Vlemma tou Odyssea) is a 1995 Greek war drama film directed by Theo Angelopoulos, and starring Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern and Erland Josephson.
University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Cologne
The University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany.
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University of Michigan Press
The University of Michigan Press is a new university press (NUP) that is a part of Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library.
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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University Press of America
University Press of America was an academic imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group that specialized in the publication of scholarly works.
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Vox (website)
Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media.
W. W. Norton & Company
W.
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Western canon
The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West, works that have achieved the status of classics.
William Cowper
William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter.
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World History Encyclopedia
World History Encyclopedia (formerly Ancient History Encyclopedia) is a nonprofit educational company created in 2009 by Jan van der Crabben.
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Xenia (Greek)
Xenia (ξενία) is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality.
Zenodotus
Zenodotus (Ζηνόδοτος) was a Greek grammarian, literary critic, Homeric scholar, and the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria.
Zeus
Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.
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See also
8th-century BC books
- Book of Amos
- Book of Hosea
- Book of Isaiah
- Book of Joel
- Book of Judges
- Book of Micah
- Book of Proverbs
- Books of Samuel
- Epigoni (epic)
- Iliad
- Nostoi
- Odyssey
- Oedipodea
- Psalms
- Thebaid (Greek poem)
- Theban Cycle
- Theogony
- Works and Days
8th-century BC poems
Epic Cycle
Nautical fiction
- A Psychological Shipwreck
- Captain Cat (book)
- Der fliegende Holländer
- Fictional ships
- Les Écrivains de marine
- Libertatia
- List of underwater science fiction works
- Nautical fiction
- Nautical novels
- Odyssey
- The Little Mermaid
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- The Wreck of the Hesperus
- The Wreck of the Zephyr
- Zwycięzcy oceanu
Poems adapted into films
- Aniara
- Annabel Lee
- Anyone lived in a pretty how town
- Beowulf
- Casey at the Bat
- Don Juan (poem)
- Enoch Arden
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Evangeline
- Huliya (poem)
- I Am Joaquin
- Iliad
- János vitéz
- Jerusalem Delivered
- Kumārasambhava
- Lalla Rookh
- Martín Fierro
- Meghadūta
- Odyssey
- Phra Aphai Mani
- Shahnameh
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)
- The Courtship of Miles Standish
- The Face upon the Barroom Floor
- The Hangman (poem)
- The Highwayman (poem)
- The Light of Asia
- The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
- The Moods of Ginger Mick
- The Old Swimmin' Hole (poem)
- The Raven
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- The Set-Up (poem)
- The Shooting of Dan McGrew
- The Sick Stockrider (poem)
- The Song of Hiawatha
- The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
- The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
- The Village Blacksmith
- The Wallace (poem)
- The Wild Party (poem)
- The Wreck of the Hesperus
- Typhoid Sufferers (poem)
Public domain books
- 1st-millennium BC books
- All Hallows' Eve (novel)
- Altazor
- Analects
- Barddas
- Burhi Aair Sadhu
- City at World's End
- Diamond Sutra
- Fire the Bastards!
- From Dictatorship to Democracy
- Iliad
- Kural
- Le Disciple
- LibriVox
- Little Fuzzy
- Little Wars
- Los Restos Indígenas de Pichilemu
- Mein Kampf
- Michigan Digitization Project
- Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions
- Motion Pictures in Education
- My Father's Dragon
- New Hampshire (poetry collection)
- Odyssey
- Plague Ship
- Principia Discordia
- Radetzky March (novel)
- Runivers
- St. Paul in Britain
- The Bear Went Over the Mountain (1996 book)
- The City of Beautiful Nonsense (novel)
- The Diary of a Young Girl
- The Indigo Book
- The New Ethics
- The Other Side of the Mountain (Jalali and Grau book)
- The Riddle of the Sands
- The Servile State
- The Universal Kinship
- Victory (novel)
- World English Bible
Sequels
- Archaic Torso of Apollo
- Epigoni (epic)
- Julien (opera)
- Media franchise
- Odyssey
- Sequel
- Spiritual successor
- Video game sequels
- Yarrow poems (Wordsworth)
References
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