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unusual facts about ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'' by Homer



A Chinese Odyssey

Just Another Pandora's Box, a 2010 parody film which spoofs A Chinese Odyssey and other movies.

Alen Pol Kobryn

Poseidon's Shadow, a novel projecting the theme of the Iliad in cold war terms, published by Scribner, contains one of the earliest references to the existence of stealth technology.

Apollo Lunar Module

The Ron Howard film Apollo 13, a dramatization of that mission starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton, was filmed using realistic spacecraft interior reconstructions of the Aquarius and the Command Module Odyssey.

Barnaby Bernard Lintot

Lintott had paid Pope £2,201 for his translation of Homer's Iliad.

Battle of Tornio

Later on 6 October 1944 first small squadron from Finnish Navy consisting of gunboats Hämeenmaa and Uusimaa and patrol boats VMV 15 and VMV 16 arrived to the location to both provide anti-aircraft fire and to suppress German battery located at Laivaniemi within firing distance from the port which had kept harassing the Finnish effort to unload their transports.

Bertha of Sulzbach

As an introduction for her to the Hellenic culture she was marrying into, John Tzetzes wrote his Allegories on the Iliad.

Bihari literature

Ramesh Chandra Prasad Sinha is a novelist from Patna, Bihar, and is the first Indian to translate the Iliad and Odyssey into Hindi.

Ceara Grehan

In 2002, Grehan performed at the Odyssey Belfast for "One Enchanted Evening," alongside Peter Corry, Brian Kennedy, Joanna Ampil (Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Jesus Christ Superstar), and Jeff Leyton (Les Misérables).

Citrus macroptera

A beef shatkora dish cooked by local chefs in Bangladesh is featured in the British chef Rick Stein's cookery programme Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey (in Episode 6), which was broadcast by the BBC on 20 August 2009.

Costa's Garden Odyssey

Costa's Garden Odyssey is an Australian television gardening program hosted by landscape architect Costa Georgiadis.

Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK

It includes remixes by Combichrist, Pull Out Kings, Alec Empire, Vive la Fête, Black Light Odyssey, Omega Man, Aesthetic Perfection and Terrence Fixmer; covers by Miss Derringer, James Cook and Anne Marie Kirby (The Dollhouse), German band Index, and Larry Driscoll; and Chris Corner's own reworks under the alias of UNFALL.

English Racing Automobiles

Two Siamese princes, Chula Chakrabongse and Bira Birabongse, whose trio of ERAs became famous as "Hanuman", "Romulus" and "Remus", ran their own team, operating from The White Mouse Garage.

Errol Kennedy

He worked with Hugh Masekela at Bray Film Studios to produce the soundtrack for the movie Soweto, and during the 1990s either toured or produced with bands such as Odyssey, Shalamar, Rose Royce, Grace Kennedy, Jamiroquai, Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan, Arthur Baker, Colonel Abrams and Simon Ellis.

Fargo Rock City

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta is a book written by Chuck Klosterman, first published by Scribner in 2001.

Francis Wrangham

Wrangham's published translations from ancient Greek, Latin, French, and Italian include A Few Sonnets Attempted from Petrarch in Early Life (1817); The Lyrics of Horace (1821) a translation of Virgil's Eclogues (1830); and Homerics (1834), translations of Iliad, book 3, and Odyssey, book 5.

François Rotger

Rotger is currently working on EVLYXES, a modern epic based on both James Joyce and Homer's Odyssey.

G. Kamalamma

Iliad (Abridged) (a translation of Homer’s work into the Malayalam language) SPCS, Poorna Publishers (Many Editions)

Geoffrey Girard

His previous books include Tales of the Jersey Devil (2005), thirteen original tales based on the legendary Jersey Devil monster, Tales of the Atlantic Pirates (2006), Tales of the Eastern Indians (2007) and an adaptation of The Iliad (2007).

George Murnu

He has translated an accomplished version of the Odyssey and Iliad into Romanian.

Ghost word

The supposed Homeric Greek word στητη = "woman", which arose thus: In Iliad Book 1 line 6 is the phrase διαστητην ερισαντε = "two = Achilles and Agamemnon stood apart making strife", where later someone not familiar with dual number verb inflections read it as δια στητην ερισαντε = "two making strife because of a στητη", and he guessed that στητη meant the woman Briseis who was the subject of the strife.

Hector, Minnesota

Hector, New York was named after the bravest of the ancient Trojan warriors whose story is an important part of Homer’s epic, “Iliad”.

Hugh Lupton

Lupton tells a wide variety of stories, including Epics such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, but also collections of shorter stories such as "I become part of it (tales from the pre-world)" and folktales such as "The Three Snake Leaves (tales from the Grimm Forest)".

I Want What I Want

One of Brown's inspirations for the protagonist of his novel may have been English model April Ashley, whose autobiography, April Ashley's Odyssey (1982) (ISBN 0-224-01849-3), co-written by April Ashley and Duncan Fallowell and published in London by Jonathan Cape, recounts her experience after she was outed as a transsexual.

Ithaca Creek

Ithaca in Greece has one of the world's largest natural harbours and is famous in legend as Homer's Ithaca, the home of Ulysses, whose delayed return to the island is one of the plot elements of the Odyssey.

James Shirley

He "was a drudge" for John Ogilby in his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and survived into the reign of Charles II, but, though some of his comedies were revived, he did not again attempt to write for the stage.

Jeff Bellinger

Bellinger has invented games since he was 12 years old, his most popular being the Killer Bunnies series, which includes Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot, Killer Bunnies and the Conquest of the Magic Carrot, Killer Bunnies and the Journey to Jupiter, Killer Bunnies and the Ultimate Odyssey, and KinderBunnies.

Junicode

Wilson's typeface was used in 1756-1758 for a renowned edition of Homer's epics (the Iliad and the Odyssey), printed by Robert Foulis and Andrew Foulis of the Foulis Publishing House.

Karatepe

According to a 2010 ZDF documentary featuring the writer and translator Raoul Schrott, the fortress and surrounding landscape at Karatepe significantly match Homer's descriptions of Troy in the Iliad.

Katrina Legarda

She is presently a Professor in the College of Medicine of the University of the Philippines teaching Medical Jurisprudence and also a Professor in the College of Law of the Pamantasan Ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM), and Lyceum of the Philippines University-makati (LPU) teaching Persons and Family Relations and Legal Writing.

Latias and Latios

Created by Ken Sugimori, Latios and Latias first appeared as central characters in the film Pokémon Heroes, and later appeared in the video games Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, also appearing in various merchandise, spinoff titles and animated and printed adaptations of the franchise.

Magnavox Odyssey series

In Russ Meyer's 1979 film Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, Ann Marie is seen playing with an Odyssey 300.

Mihail Petruševski

He published over 200 philosophic works, but his translation of Homer's "Iliad" and his adaptation of "Skanderbeg" by Grigor Parlichev were considered particularly significant for Macedonian culture.

Music of Kyrgyzstan

Their music is typically heroic epics, such as the most famous story, the Manas epic (20 times longer than Homer's Odyssey), which is the patriotic tale of a warrior named Manas, and his descendants, who fight with the Chinese.

Penthelia

The eighteenth-century English writer Bryant claimed the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey poems were written by Penthelia, and stolen from the archives of the temple by Homer in travels through Egypt.

Peter Corry

Corry's production company, 'PC Productions" brought One Enchanted Evening to the Odyssey venue. Joanna Ampil, Barbara Dickson and Brian Kennedy shared the stage with Corry and a choir of 850 and "The Night of 1000 Voices" at the Odyssey Arena. It also staged "The Night of 1000 Voices" starrind David Essex and Sir James Galway.

Podokesaurus

The generic name Podokesaurus is derived from Greek word podokes (ποδοκες) meaning "swift-footed", an epitheton often used by Homer in the Iliad to describe the hero Achilles, and sauros (σαυρος) meaning "lizard"; thus "swift-footed lizard".

Ponyta and Rapidash

Ponyta and Rapidash were two of several different designs conceived by Game Freak's character development team and finalized by Ken Sugimori for the first generation of Pocket Monsters games Red and Green, which were localized outside of Japan as Pokémon Red and Blue.

Race Life of the Aryan Peoples

So of the Aryan folk; not the Vedas, not the Avestas, not the Iliad, or the Nibelungenlied, or Beowulf, but the marvelous tale of what the Aryan man has lived—how he has subdued the wild and waste lands—how he has made the desert to blossom as the rose—how he has built up empire with ax and plow, and has sailed the unknown paths of the seas—these are his true race epic.

Red and Blue

Pokémon Red and Blue, role-playing games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy

Richard Janko

(G.S. Kirk, series editor) The Iliad. A Commentary. 4: Books 13–16 (Cambridge, 1994)

Rock Odyssey

Production of Rock Odyssey began in 1981 at Hanna-Barbera's short-lived feature animation unit, as a follow-up project to Heidi's Song.

Ron Lamothe

Starting in 2005, Lamothe spent two years shooting and editing his next documentary, The Call of the Wild, on the self-proclaimed "aesthetic voyager" Christopher McCandless, a filmmaking odyssey that took him through thirty U.S. states, two Canadian provinces, and parts of Mexico.

Stephen Kalinich

Kalinich also has collaborated with a number of recording artists, performers and musicians including P.F. Sloan, Art Munson, Kenny Hirsch, Randy Crawford, Mary Wilson of the The Supremes, Odyssey, Clifton Davis and Diana Ross.

The Limits to Growth

Some of the notable books published after 1972 include the State of the World reports issued by the Worldwatch Institute (produced annually since 1984); the influential Our Common Future, published by the UN’s World Commission on Environment and Development (1987); Earth in the Balance, written by then-US senator Al Gore (1992); and Earth Odyssey (ISBN 978-0767900591) by journalist Mark Hertsgaard (1999).

The Modern Antiquarian

The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain is a book written by Julian Cope, published in 1998.

Traditional English pronunciation of Latin

A variety of possible realizations are available for open, semi-open, and semi-closed initial unstressed syllables, including (for e and i) long, short, and reduced variants.

W. H. D. Rouse

Rouse is known for his plain English prose translations of Homer's ancient Greek epic poems Odyssey (1937) and Iliad (1938).

William Greaves

Since then, Greaves has produced numerous works, including From These Roots, Nationtime: Gary, Where Dreams Come True, Booker T.Washington: Life and Legacy, Frederick Douglass: An American Life, Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?, The Deep North, and Ida B. Wells: An American Odyssey, which was narrated by Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison.


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