Research Catalog

Title

Ulysses airborne / Mauricio Obregón ; with an introduction by Samuel Eliot Morison ; photographs by Cristina Martínez-Irujo de Obregón.

Author

Obregón, Mauricio.

Publication

New York : Harper & Ro,w [1971]

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Details

Additional Authors

Martínez-Irujo de Obregón, Cristina.

Description

xvii, 188 pages: illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Homer
• Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) > In literature
• Homer > Knowledge and learning
• Homer
• Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
• Odyssey (Homer)
• Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism
• Classical geography in literature
• Classical geography in literature
• Epic poetry, Greek
• Geography
• Literature
• Mediterranean Sea in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-182).

Source (note)

• Gift of the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

Contents

Chapter I. Notes on the World of Ulysses : Tablets and Takeoff ; Gods and Men ; Elements and Ships ; Women and Wealth -- Chapter II. Through the Curtain : Troy, Tenedos, and Ismaros (Izmir and the Cyclades) ; Malea and the Lotus-eaters (The Submerged Port of the Phileni) ; The Cyclops (Mallorca) ; Aiolos and the Sight of Home (Minorca) -- Chapter III. The Wrath of the Gods : The Laistrygones' Telepylos (Bonifacio) Circe's Aiaia (Ischia) ; Hades (The Caverns of Tangiers) ; Skylla, Charybdis, and the Trials (Stromboli, Lipari, and Messina) -- Chapter IV. Reprieve, Temptation, and Revenge : Kalypso's Ogygia and East (Malta) ; Navsikaa's Scheria (Cyprus) ; Ithaka (still Ithaka) -- Chapter V. The Homeric Question : Ulysses' Stars and Homer's Cyprus.

ISBN

• 0060132329
• 9780060132323

LCCN

71156541

OCLC

• ocm00207095
• 207095
• SCSB-1387203

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library