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https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/hexameter.pngThe Galloping MeterDiagram of dactylic hexameter and the stock epithets of Homeric verse https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/summary/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/books_overview.png24 Books at a GlanceThe 24 books of the Odyssey in three movements at a glance https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/characters/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/house_genealogy.pngThe House of OdysseusFamily tree of the House of Odysseus and the household of Ithaca https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/the-journey/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/journey_toll.pngThe Toll of the VoyageChart of the toll of the voyage: from twelve ships and 600 men to Odysseus alone https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/gods/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/gods_family_tree.pngThe Gods' Family TreeFamily tree of the gods of the Odyssey, colour-coded by who helps or opposes Odysseus https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/gods_allegiance.pngThe Gods Take SidesDiagram of the gods who help and oppose Odysseus, with Zeus holding the balance https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/monsters/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/monsters_bestiary.pngMonsters to ScaleThe monsters of the Odyssey drawn to scale against a man and a Greek galley https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/themes/ https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/about-translation/ https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/how-to-read/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/told_out_of_order.pngTold Out of OrderDiagram of the Odyssey story-time versus telling-order https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/timeline/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/tl_combined.pngThe Whole Story in TimeTimeline of the Trojan War and the journey home https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/glossary/ https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/map/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/journey_map.pngThe Journey HomeMap of Odysseus’s journey home, the fourteen stops from Troy to Ithaca https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/telemachus_map.pngThe Search for a FatherMap of the journey of Telemachus: Ithaca to Pylos by ship, overland to Sparta, and home past the ambush at Asteris https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/trojan-war/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/tl_troy.pngThe Trojan War in TimeIllustrated timeline of the Trojan War: legend versus the archaeological record https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/overlay_section.pngNine Cities of TroyDated cutout superimposed on a real cross-section of the mound at Hisarlik, the nine cities of Troy https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/aegean_troy.pngThe Toll-Gate of the SeaMap of the Aegean showing Troy guarding the Dardanelles sea-gate https://plaintextclassics.com/the-odyssey/pictures/ https://plaintextclassics.com/the-gospels/introduction/ https://plaintextclassics.com/the-gospels/how-it-was-made/ https://plaintextclassics.com/the-gospels/matthew/ 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https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/gospels_three_worlds.pngA Collision of WorldsThe cultural setting of the gospels: Rome ruled, Greece spoke, and Israel believed. Why the gospels came down in Greek, how Rome conquered the East, and why the world seemed full of demons. https://plaintextclassics.com/the-gospels/pictures/the-four-gospels/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/gospels_sources.pngHow the Four Gospels RelateThe Synoptic Problem, drawn: how Matthew, Mark and Luke came to tell the same story in the same words — Mark first, plus the lost sayings source Q — while John stands apart. https://plaintextclassics.com/the-gospels/pictures/from-cross-to-canon/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/gospels_composition_timeline.pngFrom the Cross to the CanonHow the four gospels were written and, out of a much larger library, chosen — from the oral decades to Athanasius’s canon list, with the Roman empire around it. https://plaintextclassics.com/gospel-of-judas/pictures/ https://plaintextclassics.com/gospel-of-judas/pictures/the-gospel-family-tree/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/judas_family_tree.pngThe Gospels’ Family TreeHow the Gospel of Judas fits among the dozens of early tellings of Jesus — the four that became scripture, the wider library, and the Gnostic stream it belongs to — and how it turns the story’s traitor into its hero. https://plaintextclassics.com/gospel-of-judas/pictures/a-timeline-of-the-gospels/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/judas_timeline.pngA Timeline of the GospelsThe whole arc — from the crucifixion, through the writing of the gospels and the slow shaping of the canon, to the long silence and the modern rediscovery of the Gospel of Judas, drawn to scale for the early centuries and then broken to compress the long gap. https://plaintextclassics.com/gospel-of-judas/pictures/the-roots-of-gnostic-thought/ https://plaintextclassics.com/assets/judas_gnostic_origins.pngThe Roots of Gnostic ThoughtWhere did Gnostic thought come from? 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