Word: odysseus
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That was quickly done, and once again, like crafty Odysseus, foxy Samouel Insullos sailed the wine-dark ocean past the isles of Greece. The end of adventure was not yet. The Maiotis' wheezy engines broke down outside the harbor and took many hours to repair. Then she ran into a heavy storm, was forced to take shelter in the lee of an island. Never a good sailor, Samuel Insull tossed sickishly about on his little freighter reeking of stale oil and garlic and whimpered that shiploads of U. S. pirates were lying in wait to kidnap...
...Ulysses"? Every schoolboy knows the story of the Odyssey, epic-sequel to the Iliad, which recites the ten-year wanderings of the wily Odysseus (Latin-Ulysses) in his long-thwarted attempts to get home to his island kingdom after the siege of Troy. The Ulysses of the Odyssey is a cunning, commonsensible, nervy, not-too-scrupulous man, an opportunist who triumphs at last not so much by virtue as endurance. Joyce first conceived the tale of Leopold Bloom as a short story, only to discover too many possibilities in it. In his strolls down the beaches of literature he stumbled...
...alike to paroxysms of intense physical pain from the noisome wound in his foot and to a growing bitterness and hatred against those who had betrayed him. But the supreme stroke of genius was the introduction of the character of Neoptolemus, the youthful son of Achilles. Neoptolemus comes with Odysseus, who had been the cause of the abandonment of Philoctetes, to carry back to Troy the wounded hero and his bow. In the two figures of Neoptolemus and Odysseus are personified not only the antagonism between Aeolian and Ionian, not only the reciprocal blindness of bold youth and cautious middle...
Only with difficulty does Odysseus persuade Neoptolemus to adopt his plan of tricking Philoctetes with lies, and the trust which the latter shows the son of his old friend Achilles soon arouses the already troubled conscience of the young man. When Philoctetes in a fit of agony intrusts to him the coveted bow and arrows Neoptolemus refuses to be false to his friend or to himself, and tells him the truth. There follows a long struggle between Philoctetes' determination never to go to Troy and Neoptolemus' attempts to persuade him. Odysseus seeks to employ violence, and finally drives Neoptolemus...
...assistant professor of Greek and Latin, is the chairman. F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, will coach the actors, and E. C. Weiss '30, will coach the chorus. The cast will be R. S. Fitzgerald '33, Philoctetes, R. V. Scudder '34, Neoptolomus, H. T. Levin '33, Odysseus, P. L. McKendrick '34, a sailor, J. McG. Bottkul 1G, Heracles, and H. C. Hatfield '33, the leader of the chorus...