[[Image:Charybdis_1997.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Charybdis as portrayed in ''The Odyssey (1997)'' TV miniseries; Odysseus's ship can be seen falling into its maw.]]
...some of his crew rather than lose the whole ship to Charybdis. (Homer's ''Odyssey'', Book XII).
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...rshot, Odysseus stopped thrashing about and calmed down, and was released (Odyssey XII, 39).
...ers with Jason or Odysseus, though the incident appears in neither Homer's Odyssey nor Apollonios Rhodios's Argonautika. It is also said that Hera, queen of t
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...he thunderbolt, from them; in one of the most famous passages of Homer's ''Odyssey'', the hero Odysseus encounters the Cyclops [[Polyphemus]], the son of [[Po
In Homer's ''Odyssey'' (book ix), a scouting party led by the Trojan War hero Odysseus lands on
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...so, as a bestial, blind, tusk-faced monster inspired by the Cyclops of the Odyssey; this orco should not be confused with the orca, a sea-monster also appeari
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...:Scylla_1997.png|thumb|300px|Three of Scylla's heads as portrayed in ''The Odyssey (1997)'' TV miniseries; the film depicts each head striking with snake-like
In Homer's ''Odyssey'', [[Odysseus]] is given advice by [[Circe]] to sail closer to Scylla, for
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...e the comic elements of the story, which is basically a play on Homer's ''Odyssey'' IX. Silenus refers to the satyrs as his children during the play.
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...t, Odysseus stopped thrashing about and calmed down, and was released (''[[Odyssey]]'' XII, 39).
...with Jason or Odysseus, though the incident appears in neither Homer's ''[[Odyssey]]'' nor Apollonios Rhodios's ''Argonautika''. It is also said that Hera, qu
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*Homer. Odyssey 13.355, 17.240, Iliad 14.440, 20.380
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Carey Burtt's underground short subject ''The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase'' retells Chase's life story using Barbie dolls, not unlik
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LJbCY45n0 ''The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase'' on youtube]
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...ters of Necessity, the Moires, the Parques. The Fates are mentioned in The Odyssey as the heavy Spinners.
...v.209) or, earlier in the same book (line 49), of several Moerae. In the ''Odyssey'' (vii.197) there is a reference to the Klôthes, or Spinners.
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The first region of Hades comprises the Fields of Asphodel], described in ''Odyssey'' xi, where the shades of heroes wander despondently among lesser spirits,
::—Achilles' soul to Odysseus. Homer, ''Odyssey'' 11.488
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...dventurer and English knight, who returned to Great Briton after a 34-year odyssey, claims to have encountered numerous strange beasts, including the Barbary
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In the ''Odyssey'' (vii.197) there is a reference to the Klôthes, or Spinners. At Delphi, o
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...d Age and Death. Odysseus says, "Death and the Ker avoiding, we escape" (''Odyssey'' xii.158), where the two are not quite identical: Harrison (p. 175) found
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In the Odyssey (XI, Nekyia), Odysseus makes a voyage to [[Hades]], the [[Underworld]], and
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...Witch of Endor story and the visions of [[Hades]] found in both Homer's ''Odyssey'' and Virgil's ''Aeneid''.
In ''Odyssey'', [[Odysseus]] travels to Hades and sees the shades of his former colleagu
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In the Odyssey, she is a monster of the underworld:
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...''hesperus or ''eosphoros'', the "dawn-bringer", which appears in the ''[[Odyssey]]'' and in Hesiod's ''Theogony.''
*In Arthur C. Clarke's ''Space Odyssey'' series (1968-1997), Jupiter was renamed Lucifer after its transformation
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...ley Kubrick]]'s influential ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' in 1968. Contemporary filmmakers have found science fiction to be a use
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...(κύκλωπες) —well remembered for their encounter with Odysseus in Homer's ''Odyssey''—giants (though not gigantes) with only one eye. The ''titans'' were as
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