In Homer's epic poem, it took Odysseus ten years to
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They even wrote an epic poem to commemorate the occasion.
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Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro published his epic poem Syphilis, in which a young shepherd
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I'd probably write a novel, or compose an epic poem, just to fill the time.
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The opera is based on an epic poem written in Yiddish in 1931 in Havana.
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" On this occasion, Harry Bicket conducts the tragicomedy "Orlando," based on Ariosto's epic poem "Orlando furioso.
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Mr. Frank carefully sequenced them to form a visual epic poem, with internal pacing and rhymes.
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One such is the Sisters of Kyllikki, named after a character in the national epic poem Kalevala.
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The epic poem depicts a time — much like now — when Iran was surrounded by rivals and isolated.
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Nearby are pages from the world's oldest surviving manuscript of the "Shahnameh," the epic poem by Ferdowsi.
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For over twenty years he had provided at least half of the material for Jimmy's epic poem.
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Mark Marchesi spent several years documenting the emptiness of Acadia, which inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 epic poem.
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In 2013, her epic poem "Brand New Ancients" won a Ted Hughes Award for most outstanding new work.
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The latest plot-twist in the interminable epic poem that is Brexit has (somewhat unsurprisingly) prompted mass outrage.
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It has many complicated things to say not only about Homer's epic poem but about fathers and sons.
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Whitman, Alabama presents a pointillistic portrait of the American identity through videos of Alabama residents reading the epic poem.
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There was so much Hodgson wanted to do: a comprehensive world history; an epic poem with science-fiction elements.
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Another, reworking tales from the Ramayana, an ancient Hindu epic poem, lays down the founding myth of a new people.
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He began to adapt it as an epic poem titled the "The Lay of Leithian," but ultimately never completed it.
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Inspired by these, we created a playlist for the "Odyssey," which focuses on allusions or retellings of Homer's epic poem.
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The Beowulf Manuscript is not just composed of words that serve as the basis for every translation of the epic poem.
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Like an epic poem, the quartet captivates and lulls the listener — less grand narrative and more a carefully-sorted collection of episodes.
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" His much-lauded epic poem was "Omeros," which the foundation bio called a "reimagining" of "the Trojan War as a Caribbean fisherman's fight.
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The oldest known written record of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey" may have been found at the ancient site of Olympia in Greece.
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IN 1876 William Morris published his epic poem about Sigurd the Volsung, and Richard Wagner put on his first "Ring" cycle at Bayreuth.
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The canto — a division or segment within an epic poem — feels like a model for how Gisholt's paintings, and his studio, are organized.
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He channeled these sessions into an epic poem, "The Changing Light at Sandover," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983.
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The title of Pullman's trilogy titles comes from section of an epic poem by John Milton called "Paradise Lost," first published in 1667.
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SM: For the work in my most recent exhibition, I was referencing a section of the Ramayana, which is an Indian epic poem.
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Malik Muhammad Jayasi, a Sufi Muslim poet, created the character of Padmavati in an epic poem he wrote in the mid-16th century.
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They depict men dressed in typical gaucho fashion against the Argentine landscape, and illustrate José Hernández's epic poem about a gaucho named Martín Fierro.
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The title of Pullman's trilogy titles comes from a section of an epic poem by John Milton called "Paradise Lost," first published in 1667.
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The book doesn't distinguish itself from others in the genre — it's an epic poem rendered in workmanlike prose — but the details are astonishing nonetheless.
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Spenser's epic poem "The Faerie Queene" begins with a "hideous storme of raine," and Harris's description of his excessive renderings of the seasons is fabulous.
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Known as the Vergilius Vaticanus, it's one of the world's oldest versions of the Latin epic poem, and you can browse it for free online.
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Each new event and unlock became another line of the epic poem he was composing about "Plume of Maroon" and his race of science-parrots.
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Based on "Paradise Lost," John Milton's epic poem about Satan and man's fall from grace, but intended for teenagers, Pullman's trilogy isn't light or childish.
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A better answer is found in the Roman poet Lucretius' argument in his epic poem De Rerum Natura, that we can die inch by inch.
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The sport takes its playbook from the Mahabharata, the 9th Century B.C.E. Hindu epic poem, where it's mentioned as a military formation called the Chakravyuha.
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His odyssey from college dropout to art dealer and philanthropist, for whom a book-collecting hobby became an obsession, could itself inspire an epic poem.
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On the basis of "The Answers," I'd read anything Catherine Lacey tried her hand at: science fiction, a screenplay, an epic poem … hell, a limerick.
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" McCartney's notebook contains 22 pages of essays on subjects such as John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" and Thomas Hardy's novel "The Return of the Native.
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The list is being declaimed in what amounts to an epic poem of loss; the history of progress, it implies, is also a history of obsolescence.
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ON THE face of it, the dominant literary forms of the modern age and the classical one—the novel and the epic poem—are almost opposites.
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The literary element is an excerpt from the epic poem "The Columbiad," written by Joel Barlow, a Connecticut-born poet and diplomat, and published in 1807.
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But this story, based on Ariosto's epic poem "Orlando Furioso," inspired Handel to some bold innovations, including one of the most shattering mad scenes in opera.
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Being bypassed by someone who could have been your one and only may seem like a rare, gut-wrenching tragedy worthy of a novel or epic poem.
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In his epic poem, "The Age of Anxiety," published in the 1940s, W. H. Auden seemed to recognize this, "Now is the age of anxiety," he wrote.
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According to villagers the impression was left by Sita, Lord Rama's wife, who was stolen away by the demon king Ravana in the epic poem the Ramayana.
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Before the opening credits roll in "Padmaavat," a disclaimer carefully notes that the film is based on an epic poem that is considered a work of fiction.
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The Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), a 50,000 verse epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi, is teeming with descriptions of battles between humans, devils, and demons.
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All this radiating out from "Dice," which he calls both an epic poem and a masterpiece, though to my mind it is neither — rather a grandiose failure.
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These are some of the hallucinatory scenes in Sandro Botticelli's drawings for the epic poem The Divine Comedy, charting Dante Alighieri's imaginary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
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"Howl" (2003/2013) directly references both Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" (1893) and Allen Ginsberg's epic poem, and ultimately that overload of allusions collapses on its own weight.
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Based on an epic poem by Malik Muhammad Jayasi, the film tells the story of Padmavati, the queen of the Rajput warrior clan and Mughal conqueror Alaudin Khilji.
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In Homer's epic poem, the sirens are actually described as half-female, half-bird, but for whatever reason, ancient and contemporary illustrations depict them as fish-female hybrids.
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Written partially in verse like an epic poem, the book describes O'Donnell's longing to escape Queens and become a star, unaware of the downsides that come with celebrity.
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The island was home to Odysseus, who found his way home from the Trojan war after a 10-year voyage lost at sea, recounted in Homer's epic poem.
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Mr. Braziller scored another triumph in 1968 with his two-volume, 1,000-page facsimile edition of William Caxton's 1480 translation of Ovid's epic poem "Metamorphoses," a British treasure.
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The title of the diary, "Work and Days," came from the epic poem of Hesiod, a Greek poet, from around 700 BC, which discussed corruption, honesty and justice.
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Three stages will host readings, and there will be alternative interactions as well, such as the roving "Typewriter Project" booth, where you can contribute to a collaborative epic poem.
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His wandering arrested by this tragedy, he establishes an unlikely friendship with the Indian hotel owner, who wants Henry to read the epic poem her late husband left behind.
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She plucked other details from the Argonautica, an epic poem about the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, which describes how Circe performs a purification ritual for Jason and Medea.
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Compared with Carroll's two masterpieces, his long epic poem about the hunting of the Snark, and his massive "Sylvie and Bruno" and "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded," it's a meagre harvest.
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The film-makers have repeatedly said the film takes its inspiration from an epic poem of the same name, but their assurances have failed to assuage the Karni Sena group.
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Her recent book, Benediction (Letter Machine, 2015), an epic written in ragged grammatical form, further concretizes her work to repossess the historically male-dominated epic poem as a feminist genre.
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It's a feminist retelling of Homer's epic poem, told through the eyes of Circe, the sorceress who Odysseus encounters on his way home from Troy, who turns his crew into pigs.
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Here is his essay: In literature, we learned that in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," Homer uses the tribulations of the hero Odysseus to illustrate the Ancient Grecian custom of xenia.
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They meet epic-poem cute: Hunting deer in the forest with bow and arrow, Padmavati misses her target (or does she?) and instead hits Ratan Singh right in the ticker. Boom.
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I want to run a magazine and understand the lives of ants and be a philosopher and be a computer scientist and write an epic poem and understand every ancient language.
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He has written another ballet, based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "Evangeline," that has yet to be produced because, he said, he wrote too many male parts — a rookie mistake.
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The findings were based on field work in 2006 and 2011 in Chitrakoot, a heavily forested region in central India famous for being an important location in the epic poem the Ramayana.
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"They're not Gilgamesh," Frahm joked, referring to the epic poem, but the tablets are exciting in that they reveal telling details from daily life as it played out thousands of years ago.
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Claim to Fame In 2016, Tommy Pico released his first novel, "IRL," an epic poem in the form of an extended text message that was awarded the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize.
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New York (CNN)The recitations of the nearly 3,000 names of the dead rose toward a cloudy sky over lower Manhattan Sunday morning like an epic poem chronicling one of America's saddest days.
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The play is inspired by John Milton's epic poem imagining a history before history, with God and his angels waging a battle for heaven and, eventually, for the souls of Adam and Eve.
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In Derek Walcott's epic poem "Omeros," a wide-ranging reimagining and mash-up of Homer's Aegean and the contemporary Caribbean, he writes admiringly and respectfully of his protagonist, Achille, a St. Lucian fisherman.
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One provision also set up the first statutory definition of mead, an alcoholic beverage made of fermented honey, probably more familiar to scholars of the Dark Ages epic poem "Beowulf" than most American imbibers.
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Jan. 31-March 12 The Komische Oper's firebrand director Barrie Kosky is at the helm of this new production of Tchaikovsky's opera, based on Pushkin's epic poem about a Russian nobleman unlucky in love.
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Named after the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg's landmark 1955 epic poem, Howl Happening is a multimedia gallery devoted to retro art shows, nostalgic photo exhibits and raucous performances that defined the once-gritty neighborhood.
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"Polytropos," Wilson said, in her deep, buoyant voice, pointing to the fifth word — πολuτροπον — of the 220,224-line epic poem that I had come to her office at the University of Pennsylvania to discuss.
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Adapted from a 1956 epic poem by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson, the movie follows the journey of the Aniara spacecraft as it carries refugees from a dying Earth to their new lives on Mars.
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The comic dives into one scene from her journey as a warrior, told in the form of an epic poem written by Antoniades and brought to life with the dark and gothic watercolor style of Templesmith.
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Apart from the facade of dangling boats, which is titled "Reframe", the exhibition includes Lego-block portraits of four Florentine dissidents of the past, including Dante Alighieri, author of the mediaeval epic poem "The Divine Comedy".
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I never liked The Odyssey as a child: I was very rule-oriented, and the idea of devoting an entire epic poem to celebrating someone like Odysseus who was so clearly a dick made me furious.
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Bhattacharya recorded professionals and amateurs performing classical and folk, secular and religious music, as well as Bedouin workers rhythmically grinding coffee and a ninth-century Persian epic poem intoned, with drumming, to pace an exercise routine.
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He alludes to the influence of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost when writing of Franz von Stuck's 1891 painting "Lucifer," whose pensive, muscular titular figure is differentiated only by his unearthly bright eyes and shadowy wings.
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For those who don't know, Wilson is the first woman to have published a translation of "The Odyssey" -- Homer's epic poem about Odysseus' 10-year trek home after the end of the Trojan War -- into English.
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And Paterson seems to find something to praise or encourage around every corner — partly because his idol is William Carlos Williams, the New Jersey poet who wrote a five-part epic poem titled — you guessed it — Paterson.
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For the Bolivian-American avant-garde musician Elysia Crampton — who recently delivered a riveting epic poem within her potent and political album "Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City" — the past and its discomforts are never far from mind.
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Charlie Hunnam's fabulous lead performance brings soulfulness and nuance to Fawcett's life-altering preoccupation, but Gray's sumptuous direction is the real star here, turning Lost City of Z from a pretty period biopic into an epic poem.
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For a solution he turned to a time before England and Scotland were unified, to Lucifer, the tragic fallen angel of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost who declares it better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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A closeted gay man with a large inheritance and a penchant for Victorian dandyism, Roussel was finishing a piece called "La Doublure" — an epic poem focused on wordplay (doublure means both an understudy and the lining of a coat).
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And if you're looking for something more aggressive-aggressive, there's Hannah Versus the Tree by Leland de la Durantaye, a novel that's part epic poem and part thriller, about a young women's meticulously plotted revenge against her corrupt family.
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Then, he thought about the theme of surrendering to love at the core of the song, and decided to invert the story of Paradise Lost, the 1667 epic poem about Satan's fall from heaven and eventual revenge on God.
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The other day I made a list of books I would like to write that included an epic poem about the bard, and ribald, Earl of Rochester; a stage adaptation of Dante's Paradiso; and a "real" translation of something from Sanskrit.
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This epic poem was found on a series of ancient tablets from Mesopotamia written down over 4,000 years ago, and involves the central character Gilgamesh, an excessive and oppressive leader, and his arduous journey in pursuit of the secrets of immortality.
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The opera, "Hatuey: Memory of Fire," is based on a 1931 epic poem written in Yiddish by Oscar Pinis, a Ukrainian refugee who fled to Cuba and edited a Yiddish newspaper there, and who later took the name Ascher Penn.
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Paterson follows Driver's poetry-writing bus driver named Paterson, who lives in Paterson, New Jersey, and loves the work of poet William Carlos Williams (who wrote an epic poem called "Paterson," in case you're still working out that title's significance).
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His decision to give a post-bailout speech on the island was laden with classical symbolism: in Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, returned home from the Trojan war after a 13-year voyage lost at sea.
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I stood in front of "Epic Poem of Malaya" (21964) by Chua Mia Tee, a key painting in Declarations and Dreams, with Singaporean poet and author Alvin Pang, who informed me of the work's local political context during the 1950s.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the release of a controversial Bollywood movie based on an epic poem about a 14th-century queen, a day after its producers went to court to fight bans by several states.
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In the second half of the program, however, a clearer attention to words would have benefited Elliot Cole's "Hanuman's Leap," inspired by the Ramayana, a 2,500-year-old epic poem from India, and performed here by Roomful of Teeth and the percussion ensemble Tigue.
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NEW DELHI — Ayodhya is a small, placid temple town in northern India, considered holy by Buddhists, Jains and Muslims, and believed by most Hindus to be the birthplace of Ram, one of Hinduism's most revered deities and the protagonist of the epic poem the Ramayana.
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Most conspicuous among these is Gareth Hinds's THE ILIAD: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Candlewick, $27.99), a careful, informative and compelling rendering of the Greek epic poem of the legend of the Trojan War — specifically the reverberations of the dispute between the warrior Achilles and King Agamemnon.
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One, "La Familia," asks members of the public to contribute lines to a collective epic poem, while "El Jardin" chronicles Mr. Herrera's explorations of the library's collections and features his short "poem responses" to items like an Abraham Lincoln campaign poster and the 16th-century Huexotzinco Codex.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court will hear an appeal on Tuesday against a controversial Bollywood film, for the second time in as many weeks, as two states seek to re-impose a ban on the movie, based on an epic poem about a 14th-century queen.
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This passion for land is deeply engraved in the Irish mentality, as evidenced in literary works like Patrick Kavanagh's epic poem "The Great Hunger" and John B. Keane's play "The Field," said Terence Dooley, a historian of land reform who is a professor at Maynooth University.
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The original title for Alien: Covenant was Alien: Paradise Lost, a more appropriate title for a film that explicitly quotes John Milton's 1667 epic poem about the fall of man, which follows (but takes some poetic license with) the account found in the biblical book of Genesis.
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Created with his longtime collaborator, Marie-Hélène Estienne, "Battlefield" revisits the bloodied fields of "The Mahabharata," the ancient Sanskrit narrative that is the world's longest epic poem, which was adapted into nine hours of stage time for Mr. Brook's Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord by Jean-Claude Carrière.
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NEW DELHI — On Saturday, fireworks were set off in parts of India to celebrate the verdict by the country's Supreme Court to clear the way for the building of a temple for Rama — the Hindu deity and the protagonist of the epic poem "Ramayana" — in Ayodhya, a northern Indian town.
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Example: Alex Iyer, Geneva School of Boerne, San Antonio: Homer's "The Odyssey" and "As Rich Nations Close the Door on Refugees, Uganda Welcomes Them" In literature, we learned that in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," Homer uses the tribulations of the hero Odysseus to illustrate the Ancient Grecian custom of xenia.
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Alex Iyer, Geneva School of Boerne, San Antonio: Homer's "The Odyssey" and "As Rich Nations Close the Door on Refugees, Uganda Welcomes Them" In literature, we learned that in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," Homer uses the tribulations of the hero Odysseus to illustrate the Ancient Grecian custom of xenia.
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Which is to say that we glimpse Adams swimming with nothing but goggles in the Potomac at dawn, writing an epic poem about early Ireland, planting hundreds of fruit trees on the trips back to Quincy and, most important of all, interacting awkwardly with Louisa Catherine Adams, his wife of 50 years.
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Among the images here are a saintly 613 oil-on-canvas portrait by Ms. Fini of her friend Jean Genet, the convicted thief turned author and gay icon, as well as 261 illustrations for Mr. Genet's "The Galley," an epic poem about life on a ship headed to a French penal colony.
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Most of this recent violence took place across the Spanish border, but not far from Saint-Jean Pied-de-Port is the Roncevaux Pass in the Pyrenees, where Basque guerrillas slaughtered the troops led by Roland, Charlemagne's general (and nephew), in 778, as recounted in the 11th-century epic poem The Song of Roland.
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What the Iliad tells us about 21st-century tragedy When Achilles saw his friend and comrade Patroclos killed in Homer's epic poem, he had to be restrained from self-harm -- which David Morris, author of a history of post-traumatic stress disorder, identified as a kind of through-line for how suicide has haunted societies throughout history.
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From above, higher than the spires, higher even than the office towers… the river comes pouring in above the city and crashes from the edge of the gorge in a recoil of spray and rainbow mists — Back then I hadn't yet read those lines in the epic poem "Paterson" by William Carlos Williams, the pediatrician-poet who lived a short drive away and made house calls in the city.
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Though Mr. Ninomiya's 36-look epic poem — which moved from dandelion-fluff bridal pom-poms to skeletal motorcycle leather jackets, spines raised and studded with silver; to towers of human topiary; to oil-slicked nature; and back to light, all crowned by extraordinary living confections of ferns and cactuses by the floral artist Azuma Makoto — was one of the truly transporting moments of fashion month (a hackneyed word not to be used lightly, but one that here genuinely applies).
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