The Greek myths were first passed on by word of mouth, down through the violence of a dark age. The two or three centuries beginning about 1125 B.C.E. w e r e marked by strife and turmoil. The course of civi-lization was set back by centuries. Later Greeks, look-ing back through the dim prism of the centuries of vio-

Examining the Homeric Epics Composed in Greece around 750–725 b.c., the Iliad and the Odyssey are perhaps the greatest masterpieces of the epic form, narrative poetry about a …

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is an action role-playing video game played from a third-person perspective. At the beginning of the game, the player can select to play as either Alexios or Kassandra, Greek mercenaries and descendants of the Spartan king Leonidas I.In addition to completing the story campaign, players can freely explore a large open world set in Greece on …

Nepenthe / n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː / (Ancient Greek: νηπενθές, nēpenthés) is a fictional [dubious – discuss] medicine for sorrow – a "drug of forgetfulness" mentioned in ancient Greek literature and Greek mythology, depicted as originating in Egypt.. The carnivorous plant genus Nepenthes is named after the drug nepenthe.. In the Odyssey. The word nepenthe first appears in the ...

Retells, in graphic novel format, Homer's epic tale of Odysseus, the ancient Greek hero who encounters witches and other obstacles on his journey home after...

The Odyssey nearly serves as a Greek guide to hospitality, or "xenia," which was such a dominant concept in Greece that Zeus was the god of hospitality. Telemachus and Odysseus receive warm hospitality throughout their journeys from others,...