Bernard Knox
The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long ... [... more]
Random House |
Paul Shipton
Behold Gryllus, sarcastic former crewman of Odysseus, changed by Circe into a swine - and happy to stay that way. Life is just fine until the prophetess... After saving the Cosmos (and telling anyone who will listen all about it), Gryllus the Pig ... [... more]
Random House |
Stella Gemmell
Darkness falls on the Great Green, and the Ancient World is fiercely divided. On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal to the Mykene King mass. Among them is Odysseus, fabled storyteller and reluctant ally to the ... [... more]
Random House |
M.I. Finley
The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long ... [... more]
Random House |
The Odyssey of Homer
Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses's wanderings. Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War ... [... more]
Random House |
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Myths ...
 Amazon.ca: Ask readers for some adjectives to describe the fiction of Margaret Atwood and most would submit "intense, cerebral, futuristic, feminist," or just plain "weird." Only the most astute would add "funny" to the list. [... more]
CDN$25.00
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Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen is the award-winning author of more than two hundred books, including fantasy, science fiction, and poetry, which earned her the moniker the American Hans Christian Andersen. Her titles include Odysseus in the Serpent Maze, The ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Odysseus
The "real" Odysseus: What I loved about Odysseus: A Life is that it indulges a desire to identify with this mythological character as if he were a person while simultaneously reminding one of the fundamentally Modern limits of this kind of [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Waiting for Odysseus
From Amazon.com: Odysseus took the long way home from the Trojan War--20 years of wandering and adventuring through the islands of the Aegean Sea. The story of his voyage is one of the great tales of Western civilization--but meanwhile, what about the [... more]
CDN$6.99
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Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca
Highly Recommended Book on Historical Exploration: For more than two thousand years, people have debated and made claims as to the location of Ithaca, the homeland of King Odysseus, (known to the Romans by the name Ulysses.) Now, through some great [... more]
CDN$41.95
Amazon CA |
Odysseus in America
a great book on psychological problems in general: The one problem I had with "Achilles in Vietnam" was that it did not seem to offer much in the way of solutions. "Odysseus in America" provides the answers to the ugly problems [... more]
CDN$39.50
Amazon CA |
The Adventures of Odysseus
A great audiobook for the entire family: This audio version of Odysseus is exciting and detailed enough to be interesting to adult listeners but fully engaged my three sons, ages 9,8 and 7. Now my first grader makes references to "the lotus eaters& [... more]
CDN$18.73
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