The Odyssey

My list of very favorite books (42 books items)

"“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time” "

Conspiracy Theories About Classic Characters (8 books items)

" Odysseus’s journey takes so long because he doesn’t want to go home. Why does it take Odysseus ten years to get back to Ithaca after the end of the Trojan War? One theory is that he just didn’t want to return to his old, boring life, and all that mucking about with witch-goddesses and cyclopes was just our hero dragging his feet. This interpretation isn’t a new fad, however: Alfred, Lord Tennyson liked the idea so much that he wrote a poem about it. "

10 Horrifying Monsters in Literature (10 books items)

"Scylla Scylla is also one of the great stories of Greek mythology, but Homer, whether man or committee, so popularized the monster that we think of it in Homeric terms. The story is a metaphor, similar to that of Daedalus and Icarus, for following the middle ground, and not veering too far one way or the other. In the Odyssey, Circe informs Odysseus that his route will take through the Strait of Scylla and Chraybdis. Charybdis is a huge whirlpool that will sink his ship. It will be better, th"

30 days of books (36 books items)

"Day 10 - Favorite classic book I've always loved Greek mythology, and you don't get much more classic than that. Others I might have chosen: The Iliad, The Republic, 1984, Atlas Shrugged, The Stranger, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch 22, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Cyrano de Bergerac, As I Lay Dying, The Things They Carried, The Catcher in the Rye, The Old Man and the Sea, and several of Mark Twain's books."