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  • In the Odyssey, Poseidon is a constant adversary to the titular hero ... Homer, The Odyssey IX; Euripides, The Cyclops. See also: Rose, 244. ...
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  • myths including Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Later Roman legends about ... writings of other ancient authors. In the Odyssey, Ulysses sees Orion hunting ...
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  • main hero in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key ... In the Odyssey, Book XIX (405-411) we learn that Odysseus' name ...
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  • most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration ... Not only was it the basis for A Space Odyssey, but "The Sentinel ...
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  • * Some titles contain numbers, for example 2001: A Space Odyssey. Should they be sorted as numbers, or spelled out as Two thousand and one? ...
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  • In the book, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of ... *May, Gita. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in ...
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  • *The Drums; Jazz Odyssey JO-008/BX2 (France; 2-LP w/inner leaves; instructional, partly spoken) *The Main Man (1976). ASIN: B000000Z1Q ...
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  • John T. Biermans, The Odyssey of New Religious Movements, Persecution ... *Biermans, John T. The Odyssey of New Religious Movements, Persecution ...
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  • the zero-gravity effects employed in 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... it would be 1968's 2001:A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick ...
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  • around a sacred oak. When Homer's epic, The Odyssey, was composed (c. 750 B.C.E.), divination was done there by barefoot priests called Selloi ...
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  • Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist contains a letter in which he uses A Modest ...
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  • *Algis, Laukaitis J. 2006. Platte River odyssey: a University of Nebraska ... * Johnsen, Carolyn. 2006. Platte River odyssey: a University of Nebraska ...
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  • Like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Argonautica was written in hexameters and is comparable to these epic poems. Often, Apollonius paraphrases ...
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  • legends of King Arthur, and Homer's Odyssey. Most of Tennyson's poetry is didactic. Like the fables of Aesop, they tend to have a moral ...
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  • its political influence. By the time of the Odyssey, the island was already famous as the birthplace of the twin gods Apollo and Artemis. Indeed ...
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  • for Two. Later in 1972, the Magnavox Odyssey was released, the first ... to support multiple games, the Magnavox Odyssey, had two controller inputs. ...
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  • from the book of Genesis to The Odyssey. One of the stories included ... influence of the Epic of Gilgamesh on the Odyssey, the Greek epic poem ascribed ...
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  • films, including Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, The ... ===2001: A Space Odyssey=== Kubrick spent five years developing his ...
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  • accounts of precognitive vision can be found in the Odyssey, where Theoclymenus sees a shroud of darkness about the bodies of a group of doomed suitors ...
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  • used in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The latter ballet's final act features his most famous movement, the Sabre Dance. He ...
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