Word: odysseus
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...Odysseus v. Aias, from The Iliad
...Homer's time. As in Homer's time, the sweat flowed in streams, even if blood did not. Toledo's heaving modern heroes were competing for titles in a wrestling style new to National A.A.U. competition : Greco-Roman, a modified descendant of the style used by Odysseus and Aias...
...prepared statement he said, "To the Greeks, Moly was the fabulous plant with the white flower and the black root which Hormea dug up to protect Odysseus from the charms of Circe. To the Republicans it seems to have the same use. Unable or unwilling to meet Stevenson's forthright and courageous arguments, they hope to neutralize these appeals to reason by such arguments as Professor Moley's contention that Stevenson is surrounded by an intellectual elite, and that he is talking over the heads of the people. The first charge may well be nothing mare than academic jealousy: Professor...
...make his narrative natural, Rouse did away with poetic affectations, eliminated the "thee's" and "thou's" of earlier translators, edited such elaborate phrases as "Odysseus of many counsels answered her saying . . ." to "Odysseus answered . . ." He changed Poseidon, Girdler of the Earth, to Earthshaker Poseidon, called the Cyclops "Goggle-eyes" instead of "froward," transformed the "fair-tressed Dawn" into "welcome streaks of light." He restored some of Homer's humor by translating a few names literally (Acroneus, Ocyalus and Elatreus became Top-ship, Quicksea and Paddler), allowed his characters to say such things as "Daddy, dear...
Homer's description of Ithaca as the home of Odysseus has kept classical scholars puzzling for centuries to reconcile his landmarks with the topography of that small Ionian island. Berry Fleming's Fredericksville, Ga. scene of The Fortune Tellers presents no such problems of identification: the place is plainly Augusta, with its Broad Street, its Confederate Monument and its levee against the Savannah River. But this will be no news to Augustans; many of them have grown casehardened to their fellow citizen's revelations in thin fictional disguise (Colonel Effingham's Raid, The Lightwood. Tree...