BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Odyssey. Ulysses III. Ulysses Travel Guides and Travel Books | Ulysses Online Bookstore. How A Single Question Changed My Life Forever: My Ulysses Bucket List. When I was 15 years old, I ran away from home because I was pissed off at my parents for a reason I cant remember. I didnt have much money, so I decided to hop onto the skytrain (public transport train in British Columbia) and ride it as far as it would go.
I reached the end of the line in less then an hour, and decided I wanted to ride it all the way back again, while trying to formulate some kind of plan of how I wanted to live the rest of my life without my parents or anyone. At the last stop, or the first stop depending on your perspective of it, a girl came on and sat in the row right behind me. I didnt pay much attention to her at first, as I was busy writing my life plan on a napkin. It was a few minutes later that she got up and came sat next to me, curious as to what I was writing. I told her the story, and after a few laughs, we began talking about everything and anything. Her name was Amanda, 17 years old, and absolutely wonderful. Because of the challenge she gave me. Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (2009) Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses Lyrics. The Legend of Helen of Troy – Part Two.
Read Part 1 The Iliad of Homer concerns the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. Throughout this tale, Helen regrets her part in causing the war and longs to return to her husband and daughter, Hermione. The other Trojans scorn her, with the city elders saying: We cannot blame the Trojans or the well-grieved Achaians,For enduring pain all this time for the sake of such a woman,For she looks mightily like an immortal goddess in beauty.But even so, let her board one of their ships,So she is not left here, a punishment for us and our children.
(Homer, Iliad 3.156-60) Exemplifying this point, in Vergil’s Aeneid, the protagonist Aeneas calls her “the nightmare of both Troy and her homeland” and he considers killing her (Vergil, Aeneid 2.567-88). The Trojan king Priam, however, treats Helen kindly. Since the war is rooted in the conflict between Paris and Menelaus, the two warriors agree to hand to hand combat. As the war wages on, Paris kills Achilles with an arrow, before he too is killed. O Brother, Where Art Thou? Trailer [HQ]