Homer: The Iliad and The Odyssey

He touch'd the ports desir'd;
And for an old aunt whom the Greeks held captive
He brought a Grecian queen, whose youth and freshness
Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes stale the morning.
Why keep we her? The Grecians keep our aunt.
Is she worth keeping? Why, she is a pearl
Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships,
W. S. Troilus and Cressida

ILIAD		ODYSSEY
ECONOMICS	ACHILLES CRIES	ITHAKA - Gluck	PENELOPE 1
ON THE WALLS	9/11	ITHAKA - Cavafy	PENELOPE 2
THE HELMET	TROJANS	ITHAKA - Brodsky	PENELOPE'S DESPAIR
HELEN 1	HORSES OF ACHILLES 1	CIRCE 1	TELEMACHOS
HELEN 2	HORSES OF ACHILLES 2	CIRCE 2

HELEN 3	SHIELD OF ACHILLES	CIRCE 3	GLUM HOMECOMING
SENTRY AT ACHILLES' TENT	THE LYRE OF ACHILLES	POLYPHEMUS	REUNION
AGAMEMNON SPEAKS		POLYPHEMUS -Theocritus	ODYSSEUS' DECISION

	ACHILLES IN THE TRENCH	THE GREEKS ARE BLINDING POLYPHEMUS
ASTYANAX	BORDER (Bk.XXI)	POLYPHEMUS PERVERSE	PETROS
#39 LESSON IN HOMER	ACHILLES' SONG	POLYPHEMUS MADDEN'D	GRAVE OF ODYSSEUS
CASSANDRA	PHILOCTETES	CALYPSO	ON ITHACA STANDING
THE MENELAUS		ODYSSEUS TO TELEMACHOS	WORLD AS MEDITATION
PATROCLUS PUTTING ON THE ARMOUR OF ACHILLES		IN MEMORIAM: ROBERT FITZGERALD

. . . AND BEYOND

NEMEA		THE ARGONAUTS D. H. Lawrence They are not dead, they are not dead! Now that the sun, like a lion, licks his paws and goes slowly down the hill; now that the moon, who remembers and only cares that we should be lovely in the flesh, with bright, crescent feet, pauses near the crest of the hill, climbing slowly, like a queen looking down on the lion as he retreats. Now the sea is the Argonauts' sea, and in the dawn Odysseus calls the commands, as he steers past those foamy islands wait, wait, don't bring the coffee yet, nor the pain grill‚ The dawn is not off the sea, and Odysseus' ships have not yet passed the islands, I must watch them still.
"Experience" or "Suffering"