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I Thought My Father Was God: and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
October 2001 | By Donald Dale Jackson
Excerpt from Homer's Odyssey
In the 9th-century epic poem, The Odyssey, the Greek poet Homer recounts the ancient quest of the adventurer Odysseus to return home to his loving wife, Penelope. At every chance the gods throw up mighty obstacles to prevent him from getting home even as the Lady Circe gives him the advice he needs to survive. Below, Odysseus encounters the dreaded Scylla and Charybdis. Eds.
August 2001 |
By Smithsonian magazine
