Download or read book A Girl s Greek Odyssey written by Nicki Collins Geigert and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows Savannah, a teenager as she travels through Greece and Crete with her aunt and uncle. Her aunt captures her photographically, as she experiences the food, the culture, and the history. As an athlete, she spends each day hiking, climbing, swimming, and running throughout the ruins of ancient Greece. Savannah invites you to come on an armchair adventure with her on her first international odyssey.
Download or read book A Greek Odyssey in the American West written by Helen Papanikolas and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Greek Odyssey in the American West begins with Helen Papanikolas discussing her childhood in Helper, Utah. Helper’s population was as odd a conglomeration as could be found anywhere in the West: French sheepherders; Chinese and Japanese restaurant owners; African American, Greek, and Italian rail and coal workers; and finally, Mormon, Jewish, and Slav businessmen settled in and around Helper, a way station for the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad. This book, however, is not Papanikolas’s life story but the story of her parent’s individual emigrations to the United States, their meeting and courtship, and their migrations within the West as they pursued job opportunities. Papanikolas movingly and eloquently recreates and interprets the experience of parents trying hard to succeed in America without losing their rich heritage and who ultimately enrich the culture of their adopted country.
Download or read book The Odyssey for Boys and Girls written by Alfred John Church and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, easy-to-read version of Ulysees' wandering.
Download or read book A New Greek Odyssey written by George Kostas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man is taken from Greece to work in Germany as a slave laborer during World War II. He experiences first-hand tribulations and humiliating treatment in war-time Germany, the defeat of Hitler's regime, life as a displaced person in various refugee camps, and eventual immigration to the United States. The characters portrayed in this historical novel include Jews whose families perished in Nazi concentration camps, a Russian aristocrat working as a chef in Switzerland, an Italian black market businessman working as a waiter, Germans who are decent and generous, American soldiers in occupied Germany and others. A range of human feelings--fear, humiliation, hunger, hatred, love, sex, compassion, and most of all hope--are dealt with in this novel.
Download or read book Greek Odyssey written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final installment of the romantic trilogy that began with Swiss Secrets and continued with Rendezvous in Rome,Nancy and her friends find themselves in a sea of danger as they journey to the exotic Greek islands. Three passports, including Bess’s, have been stolen from their hotel, and Nancy suspects they have fallen into the hands of international fugitives.
Download or read book Greek Odyssey written by Carolyn Keene and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Drew Files #74.
Download or read book Greek Odyssey written by Carolyn Keene and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an idyllic holiday in the Greek Islands, Nancy Drew discovers a terrorist plot. Third in the Passport to romance series.
Download or read book The Penelopiad written by Margaret Atwood and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as little more than a footnote in Homer's original story, inexplicably hangs Penelope's twelve maids. Now, Penelope and her chorus of wronged maids tell their side of the story in a new stage version by Margaret Atwood, adapted from her own wry, witty and wise novel. The Penelopiad premiered with the Royal Shakespeare Company in association with Canada's National Arts Centre at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in July 2007.
Download or read book Things Can Only Get Feta written by Marjory McGinn and published by Bene Factum Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two journalists embarking on a year's adventure in Greece just as the country faces economic collapse seems foolhardy—but it's their decision to bring their crazy Jack Russell to a crisis-weary country with zero dog tolerance that tips the plan into actual madnessAfter an Arctic winter, a recession, and a downturn in the newspaper industry, two journalists and their dog embark on an adventure in the wild and beautiful southern Peloponnese. A perfect plan, except for one thing—Greece is deep in economic crisis. And if fiscal failure can't overturn the couple's escapade in rural Greece, perhaps macabre local customs, a scorpion invasion, zero dog-tolerance, health scares, and touchy expats will. This is a humorous and insightful journey through one of the last unspoiled regions of Greece. It is full of encounters with warm-hearted, often eccentric, Greeks who show that this troubled country still has heroes, if not euros. In a hillside village in the Mani, the locals share their lives, their laughter, and their stories, and help chart the couple's own passage back to happiness. They even find a place in their hearts for their Greek nemesis—the local pungent goat cheese. Things really can only get feta.
Download or read book Your Name is Findumond A Greek Odyssey of Your Own Making written by George Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the choose your own adventure books of old, this adventure is entirely up to the reader. You are a teenage boy in ancient Greece trying to solve the mystery of your lineage. Who are you? Where do you come from? You must leave the world and comforts you know and journey into the unknown lands full of myths and legends to make your way toward your destiny. Be careful, though...some paths lead to success, and some lead to certain doom. Choose wisely.
Download or read book Penelope s Daughter written by Laurel Corona and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of The Four Seasons retells The Odyssey from the point of view of Odysseus and Penelope's daughter. With her father Odysseus gone for twenty years, Xanthe barricades herself in her royal chambers to escape the rapacious suitors who would abduct her to gain the throne. Xanthe turns to her loom to weave the adventures of her life, from her upbringing among servants and slaves, to the years spent in hiding with her mother's cousin, Helen of Troy, to the passion of her sexual awakening in the arms of the man she loves. And when a stranger dressed as a beggar appears at the palace, Xanthe wonders who will be the one to decide her future-a suitor she loathes, a brother she cannot respect, or a father who doesn't know she exists...
Download or read book The Story of Greece Told to Boys and Girls written by Mary Macgregor and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Greece which began long, long ago in a strange wonderland of beauty. These stories from Greek history begin with myths and legends about gods and heroes and end with Alexander the Great's conquests. It's an excellent reference book, thoroughly entertaining, and a good choice for an older student's first foray into Greek history.
Download or read book The Odyssey for Boys and Girls written by Alfred J. Church and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For somewhat older children who have heard their brothers talk of the difficulties of translating Homer there is "The Odyssey for Boys and Girls", wherein Alfred J. Church has retold in simple language the story of the wanderings of Ulysses on his return from Troy , his encounter with the sirens and cyclops and arrival in Ithaca, and many, many stories more. Mr. Church's similar work in "The Story of the Iliad" and "The Story of the Odyssey" has met with such general approval that he has been encouraged to prepare this new version of the Odyssey especially for young people .
Download or read book The Story of the Odyssey Or the Adventures of Ulysses written by Edward Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scylla written by Marianne Govers Hopman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's in a name? Using the example of a famous monster from Greek myth, this book challenges the dominant view that a mythical symbol denotes a single, clear-cut 'figure' and proposes instead to define the name 'Scylla' as a combination of three concepts - sea, dog and woman - whose articulation changes over time. While archaic and classical Greek versions usually emphasize the metaphorical coherence of Scylla's components, the name is increasingly treated as a well-defined but also paradoxical construct from the late fourth century BCE onward. Proceeding through detailed analyses of Greek and Roman texts and images, Professor Hopman shows how the same name can variously express anxieties about the sea, dogs, aggressive women and shy maidens, thus offering an empirical response to the semiotic puzzle raised by non-referential proper names.
Download or read book The Odyssey written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Check out this special edition of Bluewater's superhero group featuring never before seen images of 10th Muse, Isis, Judo Girl, and more!
Download or read book The Odyssey for Boys and Girls written by Alfred John Church and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odyssey centers on the Greek hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope. The Odyssey is Homers' sequel to the Iliad.
