Word: odysseus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greek classics become more valuable. This latest Englishing of what is generally considered Homer's better half should win the Odyssey many new readers, should remind many old acquaintances to read it again. Professor Emeritus (Harvard) George Herbert Palmer's translation of the wandering of Odysseus is in prose, but faithful to the letter and spirit of Homer's rolling pentameters...
...Odysseus was ten years getting home from Troy. Therefore, Homer proves him a hero of the sort that is resourceful when shipwrecked, patient when detained. But Erskine proves him a liar of the sort that is shrewd enough in pursuit of romantic adventures, and shrewder yet in making them appear less romantic than brave. Not shrewd enough however to deceive Penelope with his tale of trying for ten years to get home. "Trying, my dear man! Who kept you back?"-"Fate."-"What was her other name...
...seems there were a variety of names-Daphne, Circe, Calypso, Nausicaa-but all had the one purpose of beloving Odysseus, bearing his children, and getting rid of him when he grew boring. Daphne, lotus-eater, was perhaps the most charming-that is, until she referred casually to the custom of her country that would require Odysseus' death as soon as she was with child by him. Before he could complete, however, his mission as chosen father, he escaped to the next island and succumbed to the charms of Circe (he later described her to Penelope as "a witch, rather...
Suddenly came a wire from Athens. Moody, impulsive, Dictator-President Pangalos ordered Odysseus to hasten with his bride to London, there to assume the duties of an attaché at the Greek Legation...
...Married. Odysseus Pangalos, young son of the Dictator-President of Greece, General Theodore Pangalos; stealthily, against his father's wishes (see GREECE...