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LEADER: 04167cam 2200505Ia 4500
001 ocn229456540
003 OCoLC
005 20160208141309.0
008 080530s2003 vaua j 000 0 eng d
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020 $a9781931728508 (pbk.)
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245 04 $aThe Iliad and the Odyssey :$bstories from Homer's epics.
260 $a[Herndon, VA] :$bK12,$c2003.
300 $a150 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"The text in this volume is adapted from the following sources: Homer : the poet for all ages from Everyday classics eight reader/ ed. Franklin T. Baker and Ashley H. Thorndike (New York: Macmillan, 1918) -- What happened before the Iliad from The Merrill readers ; fifth reader / ed. Franklin B. Dyer and Mary J. Brady (New York : Charles E. Merrill Co., 1916); and, "The fall of Troy" in Thirty more famous stories retold / by James Baldwin (New York : American Book Co., 1905) -- Stories from the Iliad from The Iliad for boys and girls (New York : Macmillan, 1907) and Stories from Homer (New York : Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1901) / by Alfred J. Church -- Stories from the Odyssey from The adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy / by Padraic Colum (New York : Macmillan, 1918) -- Illustrations in this volume are by Willy Pogany, from The adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy (New York : Macmillan, 1918)"--Page 158.
505 0 $aHomer : the poet for all ages -- The Greek gods -- What happened before the Iliad. The judgment of Paris -- The beautiful Helen -- Odysseus -- The godlike Achilles -- Stories from the Iliad. Prologue : the long siege -- The quarrel -- Hector and Andromache -- Agamemnon's appeal to Achilles -- The arming of Patroclus -- How the death of Patroclus roused Achilles -- The making of the arms -- The vengeance of Achilles -- Priam's appeal to Achilles -- The death of Achilles -- The Trojan horse -- Stories from the Odyssey. Part 1, A son's adventures. The visitor to Telemachus -- Telemachus speaks -- The council meeting -- Preparing to embark -- In the hall of Menelaus -- Part 2, A hero's return. The command to Calypso -- Nausicaa -- In the hall of Alcinous -- Odysseus tells his tale -- Odysseus tells of Aeolus and Circe -- Odysseus tells of many perils -- The return to Ithaca -- Odysseus and the swineherd -- Father and son -- The beggar in the hall of Odysseus -- The scar -- The beggar and the bow -- The vengeance of Odysseus -- Husband and wife -- Son and father -- Acknowledgments.
508 $aEditor, John Holdren ; art director, Steve Godwin ; designer, Jayoung Cho.
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600 00 $aOdysseus,$cKing of Ithaca (Mythological character)$vJuvenile literature.
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650 0 $aMythology, Greek$vJuvenile literature.
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