WebIthaca most commonly refers to: Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's Odyssey; Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca; Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College; Ithaca, Ithaka or Ithica may also refer to: Places Australia. Ithaca, Queensland, a ...

WebThe Odyssey begins after the end of the ten-year Trojan War (the subject of the Iliad), from which Odysseus (also known by the Latin variant Ulysses), king of Ithaca, has still not returned because he angered Poseidon, the god of the sea.Odysseus' son, Telemachus, is about 20 years old and is sharing his absent father's house on the island of Ithaca with …

WebHomer (/ ˈ h oʊ m ər /; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is the legendary author to whom the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey (the two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature) is attributed.He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Virgil …

WebIn mythology, the Greek underworld is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that makes up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence (psyche) is separated from the corpse and is transported to the underworld. In early mythology (e.g., Homer's Iliad and …

WebPrairie in North America is usually split into three groups: wet, mesic, and dry. They are generally characterized by tallgrass prairie, mixed, or shortgrass prairie, depending on the quality of soil and rainfall.. Wet. In wet prairies the soil is usually very moist, including during most of the growing season, because of poor water drainage.The resulting stagnant …

WebA characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and …

WebDeity Description Aphrodite (Ἀφροδίτη, Aphroditē) . Goddess of beauty, love, desire, and pleasure. In Hesiod's Theogony (188–206), she was born from sea-foam and the severed genitals of Uranus; in Homer's Iliad (5.370–417), she is daughter of Zeus and Dione.She was married to Hephaestus, but bore him no children.She had many lovers, most notably …

WebUlysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called …

WebIn Greek mythology, Hector (/ ˈ h ɛ k t ər /; Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, pronounced ) was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan war.Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense of Troy, killing countless Greek warriors. He was ultimately killed in single combat by Achilles, who later dragged his dead body around the city of Troy …

WebScheria or Scherie (/ ˈ s k ɪər i ə /; Ancient Greek: Σχερία or Σχερίη), also known as Phaeacia (/ f iː ˈ eɪ ʃ ə /) 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.It is one of the earliest descriptions of …