Ulysses of Ithaca
by Homer Karl Friedrich Becker
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About This Book
Translated from the German by George P. Upton. Greek myth of the hero Ulysses of Ithaca.
Chapters (20)
- ULYSSES OF ITHACA
- Translator’s Preface
- Illustrations
- Ulysses of Ithaca Chapter I Penelope waiting for Ulysses—The Suitors—Telemachus, encouraged by Athene, sets sail
- Chapter II Telemachus visits Nestor and Menelaus—The Suitors prepare an Ambush
- Chapter III Calypso allows Ulysses to go home—Poseidon sends a storm—Ulysses is wrecked upon the Island of Scheria
- Chapter IV Nausicaa
- Chapter V Ulysses visits the King of the Phæacians
- Chapter VI Ulysses among the Phæacians
- Chapter VII Ulysses tells his Story—The Lotus-Eaters, Polyphemus, Circe, Scylla, and Charybdis—The Visit to Hades
- Chapter VIII Ulysses is taken sleeping to Ithaca by the Phæacians—Athene counsels him—He comes to Eumæus
- Chapter IX Telemachus leaves Sparta and lands in Ithaca
- Chapter X Arrival of Telemachus—Ulysses reveals himself to his Son
- Chapter XI Ulysses and the Goatherd—the Dog Argos—Ulysses in the Hall among the Suitors
- Chapter XII Ulysses and Irus, the Beggar
- Chapter XIII Ulysses and Penelope
- Chapter XIV Penelope arranges the Decisive Contest
- Chapter XV Ulysses’ Revenge
- Chapter XVI Ulysses reveals himself to Penelope
- Chapter XVII Ulysses goes to Laertes—His Father’s Conflict with the Friends of the slain Suitors—Great Sacrifice and Festival in Ithaca
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