The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of TroyMacmillan, 1918 - 254 páginas A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. |
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Achilles Ægyptus Agamemnon Aias Alcinous amongst Antinous armour arrow bade battle beggar body bring bronze brought Calypso captains cave chariot Chryseis City companions cried dost drove Eteoneus Eumæus Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus father father's house feast fell fight fire garments gate goddess gods Greeks guest hall handmaidens hands heard heart Hector Helen heroes host house of Odysseus immortal Island Ithaka King Priam lady Laertes land Laodamas looked lord maiden Menelaus minstrel mother Nausicaa Nestor nymph Odysseus Pallas Athene Patroklos Peisistratus Peleus Penelope Phæacians Phemius prayed Pylos renowned sails shield ship slain slay slew speak spear spoke stayed stood stranger swineherd sword Telemachus tell Theoclymenus Thetis thine thou art thou hast thou wouldst told took Trojans Troy wagon wall wanderings war of Troy warriors wife wilt winds wine wooers youth Zeus
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Página 159 - It would be well for some of us to go to that other island. With my own ship and with the company that is on it I shall go there. The rest of you abide here. I will find out what manner of men live there, and whether they will treat us kindly and give us gifts that are due to strangers —gifts of provisions for our voyage.
Página 159 - Cycl&pes, and we heard the sound of voices and saw the smoke of fires and heard the bleating of flocks of sheep and goats.
Página 40 - Why do you ask such a question, Eteoneus?' said Menelaus in anger. 'Have we not eaten the bread of other men on our wanderings, and have we not rested ourselves in other men's houses? Knowing this you have no right to ask whether you should bid strangers enter or let them go past the gate of my dwelling. Go now and bid them enter and feast with us.
Página 252 - So ends the story of Odysseus who went with King Agamemnon to the wars of Troy ; who made the plan of the Wooden Horse by which Priam's City was taken at last ; who missed the way of his return, and came to the Land of the Lotus-eaters ; who came to the Country of the dread Cyclopes, to the Island of...
Página 98 - Not with words, Achilles, can you affright me. Yet I know that thou art a man of might and a stronger man than I. But the fight between us depends upon the will of the gods. I shall do my best against thee, and my spear before this has been found to have a dangerous edge.
Página 45 - He became a serpent, yet we still held him. He became a leopard and then a mighty boar ; he became a stream of water and then a flowering tree. Yet still we held to him with all our might and our hearts were not daunted by the shapes he changed to before our eyes. Then, seeing that...
Página 102 - ... like me, he may be protector of the City and thereafter a great King, so that men may say of him as he returns from battle, 'Far greater is he than was Hector his father.
Página 151 - Then it was that goodly Odysseus spake unto Alcinous: 'My lord Alcinous, most notable among all the people, thou didst boast thy dancers to be the best in the world, and lo, thy words are fulfilled; I wonder as I look on them.
Página 148 - Euryalus excelled all the best. And in leaping Amphialus was far the foremost, and Elatreus in weight-throwing, and in boxing Laodamas, the good son of Alcinous. Now when they had all taken their pleasure in the games, Laodamas, son of Alcinous, spake among them : ' Come, my friends, let us ask the stranger whether he is skilled or practised in any sport. Ill fashioned, at least, he is not in his thighs and sinewy legs and hands withal, and his stalwart neck and mighty strength : yea and he lacks...