Folktales in Homer's Odyssey"... Ponts to the long-neglected folkloric aspects of the Odyssey's major plotline ..." and draws upon analogous tales from New Zealand and elsewhere. |
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... region of the earth in which the nights may be very short . Eight or nine hundred years later Tacitus will tell the astonished Romans that ' in the most distant region of Britain the night is so short that the end and beginning of ...
... region of the earth in which the nights may be very short . Eight or nine hundred years later Tacitus will tell the astonished Romans that ' in the most distant region of Britain the night is so short that the end and beginning of ...
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... region of bliss , but about a land of cannibal ogres . A quite different explanation was offered in antiquity . Crates , first head of the great library at Pergamon in the second century B.C. , wrote on this passage of the Odyssey , and ...
... region of bliss , but about a land of cannibal ogres . A quite different explanation was offered in antiquity . Crates , first head of the great library at Pergamon in the second century B.C. , wrote on this passage of the Odyssey , and ...
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... region of almost perpetual daylight came from the Baltic traders , it must have come to them from others much further north . And it happens that the home of the Baltic amber - fishers is the only one which may have been in contact with ...
... region of almost perpetual daylight came from the Baltic traders , it must have come to them from others much further north . And it happens that the home of the Baltic amber - fishers is the only one which may have been in contact with ...
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adjective adventure Aeolus ancient archer Argonautica arrow audience axe-head Bedr Basim C. J. Longman called cattle century B.C. Circe common folktale companions Cyclops earth eaten epic Epic of Gilgamesh episode Erzählungen Eurylochus explanation fact female flower Folk-Lore 19 folklore folktale Frazer giants gonians Goodyear Greek Gulf of Bothnia handle handle-tip Hermes hero Herodotus Hesiod hole Hutu Indian Indian lotus island Izanami Jātaka keel kill knots Laestry Laestrygonians Lamos land lived lotus Lotus-Eaters magical Mahāvamsa means moly motif Mycenaean Mycenaean Greece Myth narrative Nelumbo Night and Day Nymphaea Odyssean Odysseus ogre palace Pāli paths of Night place name plainly poet Radermacher Rāma Rāmāyana region remote saga Schol ship shoot shot Sirens sorceress tale Telepylus tell thou told transformation into pigs twelve axes underworld wind word Zeus δὲ δρυόχους καὶ μὲν οἱ τὰ τὴν τῆς τῶν