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Key text from The Odyssey

Calypsos Island

Nymph of the plaited tresses

Remote island

Blue waters

Great cavern

Large fire was blazing on the hearth

Scent from burning logs of juniper and cedar wafted across the island

Cave sheltered by copse of alders and fragrant cypresses

Roosting place of wide-winged birds

Trailing around the mouth of the cavern thriving garden vine with great

bunches of grapes

Four separate but neighbouring springs four crystal rivulets

Soft meadows on either side iris and wild celery flourished

Barren sea

Red nectar

Vaulted cavern

Rock, sands

Wilderness

Tall trees

Misty seas

Olive wood

Farthest part of the island trees grew tall, alders and poplars and

towering firs, all dry timber that had long since lost its sap.

Plaited osier twigs and a plentiful backing of brushwood

Bright sea

Phaeacians Island

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Shadowy mountains jutted out to meet him

Land looked like a shield laid on the misty sea

Rocky land

No covers, no harbours that would hold a ship; nothing but headlands

jutting out, sheer rock and jagged reefs

Pointed reefs; all around a raging sea; behind a smooth sheer cliff; deep

water near the shore

Solid rock

Fast running stream clear of rocks and sheltered from the winds river

mouth

Reeds

Bountiful earth

Up the slope into the thick woods

Dense undergrowth

Wooded ground.

Not far from the river he found a copse in a clearing

Bushes, one an olive, the other a wild olive which grew from the same

stem with their branches so closely intertwined that when the damp winds

blew not a breath could enter, nor the rays of the sun penetrate their

shade, nor the rain soak through.

Dry leaves

Long way from the city to the washing pools

Lovely river with its never failing pools

Sweet grass

Dark water

Sea-shore, just where the waves washed the shingle

Beach

Deep, eddying current

Bushes

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Jutting spits of sand

Barren sea

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Walls

Houses

Temples to the gods

Divided up the land for cultivation

Richly decorated room

Polished doors

High-sided waggon with strong wheels with a hood

Country and the farmers

City it is surrounded by high battlements; it has an excellent harbour on

each side and is approached by a narrow causeway, where the curved

(trim) ships are drawn to the raod and each owner has his separate

landing place. Peoples meeting place

Long and lofty walls, surmounted by palisades, presenting a wonderful

sight

Built next to fine temple of Poseidon with blocks of quarried stone bedded

deeply in the ground

Black ships

Grey seas

Near the path a fine poplar wood sacred to Athene, with a spring welling

up in the middle and a meadow all round.

Estate and fertile garden

Houses of the rest are not built in anything like the style of the palace

Entrance

Alcinous splendid dwelling

Bronze threshold

Radiance

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Bronze walls, topped by a frieze of dark blue enamel running round to the

back of the court

Well built mansion

Golden doors hung on silver posts set in bronze thresholds. Silver lintelsand gold door handles

On either side stood gold and silver dogs

Inside the hall, tall chairs along the walls with delicately woven covers

Gold statues of youths

Outside the entrance to the courtyard, surrounded by a wall, lies a large

orchard of four acres pears and pomegranates, apple trees with glossy

fruit, sweet figs and luxuriant olives.

Warm patch of ground where grapes are drying in the sun, gathered or

trodden in the wine press.

Foremost row unripe bunches faint tinge of purple

Vegetable bed

In the garden are two springs. One flows in channels, the other provides a

watering place for the townspeople and then runs under the courtyard

gate towards the great house

Bed in the portico with the finest purple rugs, spread coverlets over these

and warm blankets

Island of the Cyclops

Fierce, lawless people

Never plant or plough

Crops they require spring up unsown and untilled, wheat and barley

and vines with generous clusters

Hollow caverns in the mountain heights

Luxuriant island nearby covered with woods and home of wild goats.

Undisturbed by people.

No ships

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Not a poor country

Along shore of the grey sea there are lush water-meadows where the

grapes would never fail.

Level land

Tall standing crops

Subsoil is rich

Safe harbour

At the head of the harbour is a stream, running out of a cave in a grove

of poplar-trees

Thick fog, and not a gleam of light came through from the moon.

Obscured by clouds

Long breakers rolling up to the coast

Smoke from their fires

Nearest point cave with a high entrance overhung by laurels

Sheep and goats penned

Yard built with a great wall of quarried stones and tall pines and high

branched oaks

A long way away from anyone

Baskets laden with cheese

Thronged with lambs and kids

Vessels, pails and bowls

Dry wood to burn

Huge stone at entrance

Rocks

Flocks inside the cave

Great mouth of the cave

Olive wood

Great heaps of dung scattered throughout the cave

Broad cave

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Flames

Rocky walls

Lush shoots of grass

Flowing stream

White water

Starry heavens

Circes Island

Shelter of the harbour

Beach

From a rocky height, smoke can be seen, rising from a distant place

where Circes house lay in a clearing among the dense oak scrub and

forest trees Reddish smoke

Fierce heat of the sun

Forest pastures

Stream

Crag

Low lying island

Clearing in a glade Circes house built of polished stone

Prowling mountain wolves and lions

Palace porch of the goddess with the lovely tresses

Hall

Pigsties

Forest nuts, acorns and cornel-berries

Woods

Enchanted glades

Herb Black root and a milk-white flower

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Linen covers on chairs with fine purple rugs on top

Silver tables

Golden dishes

Silver bowl

Big cauldron

Beautiful silver studded chair with a foot stool

Cave

Darkened hall

Beautiful bed