The title of the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner comes from a line in the Odyssey by which Greek poet?
"The Odyssey (album) The Odyssey is the sixth studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X, released on November 5, 2002 through Inside Out Music. The album is the band's first to be recorded entirely at guitarist Michael Romeo's home studio, . ""Accolade II"" is a sequel to ""The Accolade"" from ""The Divine Wings of Tragedy"" (1997). The title track is the album's grand finale: a 24-minute musical interpretation of Homer's ""Odyssey"", an epic poem about the journey of ancient Greek hero Odysseus. Alex Henderson at AllMusic gave ""The Odyssey"" three stars out of five, calling it an ""old-school"" album"
"Odyssey The Odyssey (; ""Odýsseia"", in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the ""Iliad"", the other work ascribed to Homer. The ""Odyssey"" is fundamental to the modern Western canon; it is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature, while the ""Iliad"" is the oldest. Scholars believe the ""Odyssey"" was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia. The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths), king of Ithaca,"
"from many sources; his treatment of Ulysses is the first modern account. The ancient Greek poet Homer introduced Ulysses (Odysseus in Greek), and many later poets took up the character, including Euripides, Horace, Dante, William Shakespeare, and Alexander Pope. Homer's ""Odyssey"" provides the poem's narrative background: in its eleventh book the prophet Tiresias foretells that Ulysses will return to Ithaca after a difficult voyage, then begin a new, mysterious voyage, and later die a peaceful, ""unwarlike"" death that comes vaguely ""from the sea"". At the conclusion of Tennyson's poem, his Ulysses is contemplating undertaking this new voyage. Tennyson's character, however,"
"his restless adventuring. Nikos Kazantzakis aspires to continue the poem and explore more modern concerns in his epic poem """", which was first published in 1938 in modern Greek. In 2018, BBC Culture polled experts around the world to nominate the stories they felt had shaped mindsets or influenced history. ""Odyssey"" topped the list. This is a partial list of translations into English of Homer's ""Odyssey"". Odyssey The Odyssey (; ""Odýsseia"", in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the ""Iliad"", the other work ascribed to"
"As I Lay Dying (film) As I Lay Dying is a 2013 American drama film directed and co-written by and starring James Franco, based on William Faulkner's novel of the same name published in 1930. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard Section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The story is based on the loss of a mother and the struggles the family endure by going the distance to her burial ground in her home town. James Franco decided to write a screenplay of the novel with a fellow Yale graduate student Matt Rager. The novel ""As"
"essence."" As I Lay Dying (film) As I Lay Dying is a 2013 American drama film directed and co-written by and starring James Franco, based on William Faulkner's novel of the same name published in 1930. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard Section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The story is based on the loss of a mother and the struggles the family endure by going the distance to her burial ground in her home town. James Franco decided to write a screenplay of the novel with a fellow Yale graduate student Matt Rager. The novel"
"Ralph Vaughan Williams' ""A Sea Symphony"" (1903–1909). As a symbol, the sea has for centuries played a role in literature, poetry and dreams. Sometimes it is there just as a gentle background but often it introduces such themes as storm, shipwreck, battle, hardship, disaster, the dashing of hopes and death. In his epic poem the ""Odyssey"", written in the 8th century BC, Homer describes the ten-year voyage of the Greek hero Odysseus who struggles to return home across the sea's many hazards after the war described in the ""Iliad"". The sea is a recurring theme in the Haiku poems of"
"poem is modelled on ancient works, such as ""Achilleïs"" (a poem about Achilles), an epic poem by the 1st century CE Roman poet, Statius, and refers to the untimely death of the Greek Adonis, a god of fertility. Some critics suggest that Shelley used Virgil's tenth Eclogue, in praise of Cornelius Gallus, as a model. It was published by Charles Ollier in July 1821 (see 1821 in poetry) with a preface in which Shelley made the mistaken assertion that Keats had died from a rupture of the lung induced by rage at the unfairly harsh reviews of his verse in"
"""Odyssey"", also attributed to Homer. Along with the ""Odyssey"", the ""Iliad"" is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the 8th century BC. In the modern vulgate (the standard accepted version), the ""Iliad"" contains 15,693 lines; it is written in Homeric Greek, a literary amalgam of Ionic Greek and other dialects. According to Michael N. Nagler, the ""Iliad"" is a more complicated epic poem than the ""Odyssey"". () After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches ""in medias res"" towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans"
"drowned. In some variations, he died of starvation and thirst. In both versions, the narcissus plant sprang from where he died. Although Ovid appeared to describe the plant we now know as ""Narcissus"" there is no evidence for this popular derivation, and the person's name may have come from the flower's name. The Poet's Narcissus (""N. poeticus""), which grows in Greece, has a fragrance that has been described as intoxicating. Again, this explanation lacks any real proof and is largely discredited. Pliny wrote that the plant ‘""narce narcissum dictum, non a fabuloso puero""’ (named narcissus from narce, not from the"
"the Nile around the same time. Shelley and Smith both chose a passage from the writings of the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, which described a massive Egyptian statue and quoted its inscription: ""King of Kings Ozymandias am I. If any want to know how great I am and where I lie, let him outdo me in my work."" In the poem Diodorus becomes ""a traveller from an antique land."" The two poems were later published in Leigh Hunt's ""The Examiner,"" published by Leigh's brother John Hunt in London. (Hunt was already planning to publish a long excerpt from Shelley's new"
"Homer Homer (; , ""Hómēros"") is the legendary author of the ""Iliad"" and the ""Odyssey"", two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature. The ""Iliad"" is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The ""Odyssey"" focuses on the journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, around 20 years after the fall of Troy. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical"
"Odysseus Odysseus (; , "" Ὀdysseús"" ), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (, ; ), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the ""Odyssey"". Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's ""Iliad"" and other works in that same epic cycle. Son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus and Acusilaus. Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility (""polytropos""), and is thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (Greek: μῆτις or ""mētis"", ""cunning intelligence""). He is most famous for his ""nostos"" or “homecoming”,"
"text with Aphrodite via a reference to the goddess' birthplace Cythera), a girl painted by Manet and finally Aphrodite herself, rising from the sea on her shell and rescuing Pound/Odysseus from his raft. The two threads are further linked by the placement of the Greek word ""brododactylos"" (""rosy-fingered"") applied by Homer to the dawn but given here in the dialect of Sappho and used by her in a poem of unrequited love. These images are often intimately associated with the poet's close observation of the natural world as it imposes itself on the camp; birds, a lizard, clouds, the weather"
"Ancient Greek literature Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems ""The Iliad"" and ""The Odyssey"", set in the Mycenaean era. These two epics, along with the Homeric Hymns and the two poems of Hesiod, ""Theogony"" and ""Works and Days"", comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. The lyric poets Sappho, Alcaeus, and"
"in which he longs for death. We do know the broad outline of the plot from a comparison by Dio Chrysostom of the Aeschylus' ""Philoctetes"" with Euripides' ""Philoctetes"" (431 BCE) and Sophocles' ""Philoctetes"" (409 BCE). Philoctetes is mentioned briefly in Homer's ""Iliad"" and ""Odyssey"", and his story was expanded on in Lesches' ""Little Iliad"" and Arctinus' ""Iliupersis"". The Greeks had abandoned Philoctetes on the island of Lemnos on their way to Troy because they could not stand his screams of pain and the odor from his wound after he was bitten by a poisonous snake. However, ten years into the"
"(松尾 芭蕉) (1644–1694). The sea plays a major role in Homer's epic poem the ""Odyssey"", describing the ten-year voyage of the Greek hero Odysseus who struggles to return home across the sea, encountering sea monsters along the way. In the Middle Ages, the sea appears in romances such as the Tristan legend, with motifs such as mythical islands and self-propelled ships. Pilgrimage is a common theme in stories and poems such as ""The Book of Margery Kempe"". Contemporary sea-inspired novels have been written by Joseph Conrad, Herman Wouk, and Herman Melville; poems about the sea have been written by Samuel"
"in 1996. and the Folio Society in 2013. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 for his novels prior to that date, with this book being among them. The novel has also directly influenced a number of other critically acclaimed books, including British author Graham Swift's 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel ""Last Orders"" and Suzan-Lori Parks's ""Getting Mother's Body,"" and Jesmyn Ward’s ""Sing, Unburied, Sing"". In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ""As I Lay Dying"" 35th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The Grammy-nominated metalcore band As I Lay Dying derived"
"""Odyssey"" by the Renaissance scholar Andreas Divus that Pound had bought in Paris sometime between 1906 and 1910. Using the metre and syntax of his 1911 version of the Anglo-Saxon poem ""The Seafarer"", Pound made an English version of Divus' rendering of the ""nekuia"" episode in which Odysseus and his companions sail to Hades in order to find out what their future holds. In using this passage to open the poem, Pound introduces a major theme: the excavating of the ""dead"" past to illuminate the present and future. He also echoes Dante's opening to ""The Divine Comedy"" in which the"
"hunched back for the last decades of his life. A recent study excluded ankylosing spondylitis as a possible cause. A significant hole in the pharaoh's mandible was detected. Researchers observed ""an abscess by his teeth (which) was serious enough to have caused death by infection, although this cannot be determined with certainty"". Ramesses is the basis for Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem ""Ozymandias"". Diodorus Siculus gives an inscription on the base of one of his sculptures as: ""King of Kings am I, Osymandias. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my"
"topic with the same title. Smith's poem was published in ""The Examiner"" a few weeks after Shelley's sonnet. Both poems explore the fate of history and the ravages of time: even the greatest men and the empires they forge are impermanent, their legacies fated to decay into oblivion. In antiquity, Ozymandias () was a Greek name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. Shelley began writing his poem in 1817, soon after the announcement of the British Museum's acquisition of a large fragment of a statue of Ramesses II from the thirteenth century BC, leading some scholars to believe that Shelley"
"was more likely intended to be heard than read. The details of the ancient oral performance and the story's conversion to a written work inspire continual debate among scholars. The ""Odyssey"" was written in a poetic dialect of Greek—a literary amalgam of Aeolic Greek, Ionic Greek, and other Ancient Greek dialects—and comprises 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter. Among the most noteworthy elements of the text are its non-linear plot, and the influence on events of choices made by women and slaves, besides the actions of fighting men. In the English language as well as many others, the word ""odyssey"" has"
"epics contained in the ""Chrestomatheia"" (see also chrestomathy) attributed to an unknown ""Proklos"" (possibly to be identified with the 2nd-century-AD grammarian Eutychios Proklos). A few other references also give indications of the poem's storyline. The poem opens as the Greeks are getting ready to set sail back to Greece. The goddess Athena is wrathful because of the Greeks' impious behaviour in the sack of Troy (see ""Iliou persis""). Agamemnon waits behind, to appease her; Diomedes and Nestor set sail straightaway, and reach home safely; Menelaus sets sail, but encounters a storm, loses most of his ships, lands in Egypt and"
"Θησέας"" (""Kouros, or Theseus"" ) (1949), as (in his view) richer in symbolism. Ariadne (poem) Ariadne (1932) is a short epic or long narrative poem of 3,300 lines, by the British poet F. L. Lucas. It tells the story of Theseus and Ariadne, with details drawn from various sources and original touches based on modern psychology. It was Lucas's longest poem. His other epic reworking of myth was ""Gilgamesh, King of Erech"" (1948). Athens assembles to hear news that the serial killers on the south road have been killed by an unknown traveller, acting alone. In old Aegeus's kingdom, dominated"
"ships at the Black Sea and the Danube was significant. Ithaca was annexed to Greek Kingdom with the rest of the Ionian islands in 1864. Since at least 1,228 BC, Ithaki has been identified as the home of the hero Odysseus (Odyssey). The word Odyssey is derived from “odos-zeus” and is a compound of two ancient Greek words: odos, meaning: way, and zeus, meaning: mind. In translation: ""Way of Mind."" The name, Odyssey is a metaphor for ones' life struggle. Odyssey was so named by his grandfather, Autolycos, because of the boy's precocious fearlessness, intelligence and stubbornness which would keep"
"of the Earth by the stream of Okeanos. In the time of the Greek oral poet Hesiod, Elysium would also be known as the ""Fortunate Isles"" or the ""Isles (or Islands) of the Blessed"", located in the western ocean at the end of the earth. The Isles of the Blessed would be reduced to a single island by the Thebean poet Pindar, describing it as having shady parks, with residents indulging in athletic and musical pastimes. The ruler of Elysium varies from author to author: Pindar and Hesiod name Cronus as the ruler, while the poet Homer in the ""Odyssey"""
"best known southern writers of the 20th century is William Faulkner, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. Faulkner brought new techniques such as stream of consciousness and complex techniques to American writing (such as in his novel ""As I Lay Dying""). Faulkner was part of the Southern Renaissance movement. The Southern Renaissance (also known as Southern Renascence) was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, and Robert Penn Warren, among others."
"and the assassination of Julius Caesar. Augustus, as Mercury in human shape, is invoked to save the empire. I.3, ""Sic te diva potens Cypri.."" – To Virgil, Setting Out for Greece – The ode begins with a prayer for the safe voyage of Virgil to Athens, which suggests the daring of the earliest mariners and the boldness of men in overcoming difficulties set by Nature. I.4, ""Solvitur acris hiems..."" – A Hymn to Springtime – The changing season warns us of the shortness of life. Horace urges his friend Sestius – ""vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam"" (The"
"up on the different editions of Homer’s Iliad and Odysseus, but he also planned an opera about the latter figure since 1906. Only one song, ""Nausikaa"", survived from this opera plan. In 1915 the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski completed Métopes, Op. 29. It is a cycle of three miniature tone poems drawing on Greek mythology. Each of the three movements features a female character encountered by Odysseus on his homeward voyage. The movements are: ""The Isle of the Sirens"", ""Calypso"" and ""Nausicaa"". William Faulkner named the cruise ship Nausikaa in his 1927 novel ""Mosquitoes"". Armenian poet, prose writer Yeghishe Charents"
"and 'smallness'.” Ancient Greek society placed considerable emphasis upon literature. Many authors consider the western literary tradition to have begun with the epic poems ""The Iliad"" and ""The Odyssey"", which remain giants in the literary canon for their skillful and vivid depictions of war and peace, honor and disgrace, love and hatred. Notable among later Greek poets was Sappho, who defined, in many ways, lyric poetry as a genre. A playwright named Aeschylus changed Western literature forever when he introduced the ideas of dialogue and interacting characters to playwriting. In doing so, he essentially invented ""drama"": his ""Oresteia"" trilogy of"
"A Zacinto ""A Zacinto"" (; ""To Zakynthos"") is a pre-Romantic sonnet written by Ugo Foscolo in 1803. The sonnet is about the poet's feelings: when he wrote the poem he was in exile, so he knew that his remains would have been buried far away from his natal island, Zante, and nobody would have cried on his grave. The poet compares himself to Odysseus and finds a difference: the Greek hero, after the Trojan War and his long travel to home, returned to Ithaca and was buried there. The word , that is ""reclined, lied"" (second line), is an anticipation"
"approaches, such as feminist and psychoanalytic methods. Faulkner's works have been placed within the literary traditions of modernism and the Southern Renaissance. According to critic and translator Valerie Miles, Faulkner's influence on Latin American fiction is considerable, with fictional worlds created by Gabriel García Márquez (Macondo) and Juan Carlos Onetti (Santa Maria) being ""very much in the vein of"" Yoknapatawpha: ""[ Carlos Fuentes'] ""The Death of Artemio Cruz"" wouldn't exist if not for ""As I Lay Dying"""". The works of William Faulkner are a clear influence on the French novelist Claude Simon. Faulkner was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for"
"Tiresias's prophecy that Ulysses would die ""a mild death off the sea"". Pascoli's Ulysses leaves Ithaca to retrace his epic voyage rather than begin another. ""Ulysses"" remains much admired, even as the twentieth century brought new interpretations of the poem. Professor of literature Basil Willey commented in 1956, ""In 'Ulysses' the sense that he must press on and not moulder in idleness is expressed objectively, through the classical story, and not subjectively as his own experience. [Tennyson] comes here as near perfection in the grand manner as he ever did; the poem is flawless in tone from beginning to end;"