Cyclopes and Giants: From Homer's Odyssey to contemporary genetic diagnosis.

The Raft of Odysseus: The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey

Analysis of communities in a mythological social network

8 The intriguing nature of classical Homeric narratives has always fascinated the occidental culture 9 contributing to philosophy, history, mythology and straight forwardly to literature. However what 10 would be so intriguing about Homer's narratives' At a first gaze we shall recognize the very literal 11 appeal and aesthetic pleasure presented on every page across Homer's chants in Odyssey an...

Homer's odyssey and Brazilian universities

On August 7, the Brazilian Senate passed a bill (180/2008) establishing a quota policy for students’ admission to federal universities. Beginning next year, Brazilian federal universities must offer 50% of their places to students who graduated from public schools. In each state, these places must be distributed according to the state’s ethnic distribution (black or Brazilian natives). Although...

Giants of the British Isles

[email protected] Most countries and civilizations have stories about giants in their culture. In Greek and Roman times, Giants were an integral part of history. Ovid documents the story of Giants who once piled mountains up to the stars and were destroyed when Zeus hurled his thunderbolts at them. Homer, in his Odyssey, describes many Giants, often the Cyclops, including ...

Cyclopia: from Greek antiquity to medical genetics.

Cyclops are among the best-known monsters of Greek mythology, also mentioned in art and literature. According to the most recent scientific knowledge, the malformations caused by defective development of the anterior brain and midline mesodermal structures include cyclopia (synophthalmos), ethmocephaly, cebocephaly and arrhinencephaly. These severe forebrain lesions often are accompanied by sev...