Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Homer

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 883.01 HOM

Milbourne, Anna

Summary: "In this new edition of The Odyssey, Homer's classic tale has been vividly retold to delight modern readers. Dramatic illustrations bring to life Odysseus's encounters at sea, complete with furious gods, bewitching goddesses, terrifying monsters and a man-eating Cyclops." --Page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2016

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Homer

Summary: Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOM

North, Claire

Summary: "On the isle of Ithaca, queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband Odysseus sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace--a peace that is shattered by the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra. Orestes' hands are stained with his mother's blood. Not so long ago, the son of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOR

Holub, Joan

Summary: "The Goddess Girls are on their way to the Sparkle City Pet Show when they discover a cute, pink kitten on the Hello Brick Road. Two boys, Prince Paris and Odysseus, both claim the kitten is theirs. Can Artemis figure out which boy is telling the truth and get the sweet kitty back home?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Quix 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Little Holub 2021

Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam

Summary: "When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his 'one last chance' to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MEN

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: Did King Odysseus, the Trojan-horse-building genius in Homer's poem The Iliad, actually exist? In 1991, Makis Metaxas, a mayor on the Greek island of Kefalonia, discovers a 3000-year-old Mycenaean tomb. When Greece's leading archeologist, Lazaros Kolonas, begins to excavate, he unearths an object just like one described by Homer as a prized possession of Odysseus.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

North, Claire

Summary: "Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook Book Group 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOR

Zamorsky, Tania.

Summary: Homer's epic tale of the warrior Odysseus's decades-long struggle to return home after the Trojan War is simply retold for younger readers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2011

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction Zamorsky

Weiss, Lynne

Summary: In graphic novel format, retells the adventures of Odysseus as he tries to return home after the Trojan War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WEI

chat loading...
Back to Top