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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... Gilgamesh . In that epic the Akkadian goddess Ishtar tries to add Gilgamesh to the list of her lovers : Come , Gilgamesh , be thou my lover . Do but grant me of thy fruit . Thou shalt be my husband and I will be thy wife . Gilgamesh ...
... Gilgamesh . In that epic the Akkadian goddess Ishtar tries to add Gilgamesh to the list of her lovers : Come , Gilgamesh , be thou my lover . Do but grant me of thy fruit . Thou shalt be my husband and I will be thy wife . Gilgamesh ...
Page 60
... Gilgamesh is perhaps not fortuitous . Babylonian Ishtar may well be the prototype of Homeric Circe . The magician , male or female , is a stranger to Greek legend ; and it is presumably significant that the two exceptions who come most ...
... Gilgamesh is perhaps not fortuitous . Babylonian Ishtar may well be the prototype of Homeric Circe . The magician , male or female , is a stranger to Greek legend ; and it is presumably significant that the two exceptions who come most ...
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... Gilgamesh , is one who is on the look - out for a lover ; she needs only one at a time , and she will not transform him until she is tired of him . The version of the story most like the Odyssey comes from Ceylon . It is told in the ...
... Gilgamesh , is one who is on the look - out for a lover ; she needs only one at a time , and she will not transform him until she is tired of him . The version of the story most like the Odyssey comes from Ceylon . It is told in the ...
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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