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The Odyssey'Grey eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh blowing westerly, whistling over the wine dark sea' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to claim Odysseus' wife Penelope, and his young son Telemachus is powerless to stop them. Meanwhile, Odysseus is driven beyond the limits of the known

Alcestis compresses within itself both tragedy and its apparent reversal

Postgate's "Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek" (1924)

by a poignant hardness which is not just a poetic trick

to discover not only biographical facts but also the writer's own likes and dislikes

Molière and many others

and The Sack of Ilion

remarkably replacing the brazen Phaedra of earlier legend and previous treatments with a virtuous woman

και η μικρή τους εγγονή θυμάται

to explore why these animals mattered to the Greeks

Its discussion of magical types

Hannah Arendt

“Crowns of Martyrdom” (Peristephanon Liber)