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No man's lands : one man's odyssey through The Odyssey / Scott Huler.

By: Huler, Scott.
Publisher: New York : Crown, 2007Edition: 1st ed.Description: 286 pages ;21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781400082827.Subject(s): Homer. Odyssey | Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Travel | Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) | Odyssey (Homer) | Literary landmarks -- Mediterranean Region | Literary landmarks -- Greece | Literary landmarks | Travel | Mediterranean Region -- Description and travel | Greece -- Description and travel | Greece | Mediterranean Region
Contents:
"No greater claim to our credence" : on the isle of the nymph Calypso -- Something to say for yourself, or, Among the oar-loving Phaeacians -- Troy, backstory capital of the world -- Losing to the twelfth seed : surprised by the Cicones -- Acropolis now : Athens and other places actually on the map -- A drink with an umbrella in it : the honeyed fruit of the lotus -- Where No-man has gone before : in the cyclops' cave -- "Help! I need somebody!" : the hospitality of the Wind King -- Run away! run away! : catastrophe in the land of the Laestrygonians -- Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered : in the neighborhood of Circe -- Regarding the journey to hell, and how upon arriving there I found it closed -- Hold me back! : the island of the Sirens -- The truth about consequences : the choice between Scylla and Charybdis -- Everyone loves a hero : the cattle of the sun -- Among the Phaeacians, II : Corfu and the journey by night -- What these Ithakas mean -- Home at last : Penelope and Odysseus.
Summary: Details the author's efforts to retrace the footsteps of Odysseus from Troy to Ithaca as recorded in "The Odyssey, " following the Greek hero on his journey around the Mediterranean to discover why this tale has continued to resonate with Western readers.
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Fiction Fiction Books PA 4167 .A2 H85 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5191758

Includes bibliographical references.

"No greater claim to our credence" : on the isle of the nymph Calypso -- Something to say for yourself, or, Among the oar-loving Phaeacians -- Troy, backstory capital of the world -- Losing to the twelfth seed : surprised by the Cicones -- Acropolis now : Athens and other places actually on the map -- A drink with an umbrella in it : the honeyed fruit of the lotus -- Where No-man has gone before : in the cyclops' cave -- "Help! I need somebody!" : the hospitality of the Wind King -- Run away! run away! : catastrophe in the land of the Laestrygonians -- Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered : in the neighborhood of Circe -- Regarding the journey to hell, and how upon arriving there I found it closed -- Hold me back! : the island of the Sirens -- The truth about consequences : the choice between Scylla and Charybdis -- Everyone loves a hero : the cattle of the sun -- Among the Phaeacians, II : Corfu and the journey by night -- What these Ithakas mean -- Home at last : Penelope and Odysseus.

Details the author's efforts to retrace the footsteps of Odysseus from Troy to Ithaca as recorded in "The Odyssey, " following the Greek hero on his journey around the Mediterranean to discover why this tale has continued to resonate with Western readers.

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